From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Sep 24 5:13:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A033737B401 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 05:13:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pimout2-ext.prodigy.net (pimout2-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.63.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C21143E42 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 05:13:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scott@coreyair.com) Received: from coreyair.com (adsl-65-70-119-190.dsl.okcyok.swbell.net [65.70.119.190]) by pimout2-ext.prodigy.net (8.12.3 da nor stuldap/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g8OCCxI5119156; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 08:13:04 -0400 Message-ID: <3D9056D5.9000002@coreyair.com> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 07:13:09 -0500 From: "Scott B. Corey" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Weston M. Price" Cc: Joshua Lokken , THUNTEK TECH SUPPORT MIKE , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: setting up ymessenger in KDE3 on FreeBSD References: <169863928763.20020918220114@rpg.pl> <02092318055301.01012@thuntek> <001601c26364$d6b48770$0200000a@joloxbox> <200209232319.54180.wmprice@direcway.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org No! Do not post questions to this list. Obviously, some individuals have not paid to much attention to what this list is!. Quoted from: http://www.freebsd.org/projects/newbies.html "On line we have the FreeBSD-Newbies mailing list for non-technical discussions about matters of interest to newbies. Another mailing list, FreeBSD-Questions, answers our questions about using FreeBSD." If you have a question post it to questions@freebsd.org. However, I recommend that you read this first, before posting: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-questions/index.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/index.html Welcome to the world of BSD! Weston M. Price wrote: > Hi, > That last response was a bit terse. You should try and use the ports or > packages collection for your system. As previously ymessenger is included and > should build just fine on your system. However, while your at it, read the > handbook about the ports collection and its uses for FreeBSD. If you have any > questions you can always post it to this list. > > Regards, > > Weston > > On Tuesday 24 September 2002 12:53 am, Joshua Lokken wrote: > >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "THUNTEK TECH SUPPORT MIKE" >>To: >>Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 5:05 PM >>Subject: setting up ymessenger in KDE3 on FreeBSD >> >> >>>Hello freebsd-newbies; >>> >>>I am also a newbie, running FreeBSD4.6 with KDE3. How can I install Yahoo >>>messenger? I downloaded both rpm & tar.gz and could get neither to work. >>>Anyone know what I am missing? I have tried for 2 days without success. I >> >>am >> >> >>>thankful for any help. >>> >>>Mike >> >>cd /usr/ports/net/ymessenger >>make install clean >> >>That should do it! >> >>Jolok >> >> >>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >>with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message