Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 19:42:23 +0800 (CST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Stephen=20Liu?= <satimis@yahoo.com> To: nelis@8ball.co.za Cc: FreeBSD Questions Mail List <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ICQ question Message-ID: <20040513114223.95278.qmail@web40306.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <1084441923.6210.2.camel@nelis.brabys.co.za>
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Hi Nelis, > > Has any folk run 'Kxicq' on FreeBSD before. Can I > > talk to my friend if he runs MSN on Windows? If > NO > > kindly advise what will be the solution. > > you may want to try Gaim > http://gaim.sourceforge.net/ for MSN support > and others. > > /usr/ports/net/gaim Hi Nelis, FreeBSD 5.2 =========== Tks for your advice. # cd /usr/ports/ # make search name=gaim Port: gaim-0.73 Path: /usr/ports/net/gaim ...... But the lastest version is gaim-0.77.tar.gz which has been downloaded to /usr/home/download/ I expect to install "gaim-0.77.tar.gz" Can I perform as follow; # cd /usr/home/download/ # pkg_add gaim-0.77.tar.gz Or installing the package starting from its tarball # cd /usr/home/download/ # tar zxvf gaim-0.77.tar.gz # cd /usr/home/download/gaim-0.77 # ./configure # make # make install Kindly advise. TIA B.R. Stephen _______________________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com.hk address at http://mail.english.yahoo.com.hk
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