Alternative to GAIM

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Chris Aitken wrote:

> William Park wrote:
>
> > [...]
>
> >
> > Question:
> >
> > > Does this mean it's not really a tar.gz?
> >
> > Answer:
> >
> > > [root at p166 amsnfls]# file amsn-0_83.tar.gz
> > > amsn-0_83.tar.gz: HTML document text
>
> Point taken. So, how do you untar/unzip and rpm -i a file that
> may not be a tar, gzip or, for that matter, an rpm?

    You don't; it's not tarred, it's not gzipped, and it's not an
    rpm. It's an HTML file.

    You go back to the web site and get the correct file.

    (You can read it with a text editor, or a web browser. With the
    latter, it'll look better if you rename it amsn-0_83.html.)

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