dam 0 Report post Posted June 8, 2006 Hi, My name's Dam, I'm from Newcastle, UK and I've just installed suse 10.1 on my PC I've not used linux at all before so I'll proabbly have a lot of questions but I'll be happy to help others if I can Cheers Dam Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
anyweb 490 Report post Posted June 8, 2006 welcome to the world of linux and to the forums Dam, we are also on IRC, join the EFNET server and join #linux-noob cheers anyweb Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dam 0 Report post Posted June 8, 2006 welcome to the world of linux and to the forums Dam, we are also on IRC, join the EFNET server and join #linux-noob cheers anyweb Ok, cheers, I'll try and get in the channel later on. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
1ajs 2 Report post Posted June 8, 2006 welcome to the world of linux and to the forums Dam, we are also on IRC, join the EFNET server and join #linux-noob cheers anyweb Ok, cheers, I'll try and get in the channel later on. wats IRC? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
znx 24 Report post Posted June 8, 2006 wats IRC? It's like Instant Messaging but on steriods. If you use Firefox, you can install Chatzilla (an extension) and then join an IRC server. Check out IRCHelp.org for the best starter information. Also take a look at EFNet which is the network we use. Just like you get AOL, MSN and Yahoo. You get lots of IRC server groups as well, EFNet, Freenode, DALNet, UnderNet, QuakeNet .. etc etc. It is a great way to live chat to others for instant help. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
1ajs 2 Report post Posted June 10, 2006 wats IRC? It's like Instant Messaging but on steriods. If you use Firefox, you can install Chatzilla (an extension) and then join an IRC server. Check out IRCHelp.org for the best starter information. Also take a look at EFNet which is the network we use. Just like you get AOL, MSN and Yahoo. You get lots of IRC server groups as well, EFNet, Freenode, DALNet, UnderNet, QuakeNet .. etc etc. It is a great way to live chat to others for instant help. and you install irc how? and use it how ???????????????? has gaim if it matters Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
noriko 0 Report post Posted June 10, 2006 wats IRC? It's like Instant Messaging but on steriods. If you use Firefox, you can install Chatzilla (an extension) and then join an IRC server. Check out IRCHelp.org for the best starter information. Also take a look at EFNet which is the network we use. Just like you get AOL, MSN and Yahoo. You get lots of IRC server groups as well, EFNet, Freenode, DALNet, UnderNet, QuakeNet .. etc etc. It is a great way to live chat to others for instant help. and you install irc how? and use it how ???????????????? has gaim if it matters i don't think gaim has it, have't chekked... but i find xchat to be very nice. http://www.xchat.org/ they don't seem to have a suse specific rpm....but in my very distant experience with rpm distros it didn't matter much which type of rpm packages i used. but just in case you can't install or compile it. i'd be glad to compile it for you. providing you have an i686 cpu. not really in the mood to mess with my config files right now, lol. i'm also new here btw, so hello fello noob. :-) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
1ajs 2 Report post Posted June 10, 2006 wats IRC? It's like Instant Messaging but on steriods. If you use Firefox, you can install Chatzilla (an extension) and then join an IRC server. Check out IRCHelp.org for the best starter information. Also take a look at EFNet which is the network we use. Just like you get AOL, MSN and Yahoo. You get lots of IRC server groups as well, EFNet, Freenode, DALNet, UnderNet, QuakeNet .. etc etc. It is a great way to live chat to others for instant help. and you install irc how? and use it how ???????????????? has gaim if it matters i don't think gaim has it, have't chekked... but i find xchat to be very nice. http://www.xchat.org/ they don't seem to have a suse specific rpm....but in my very distant experience with rpm distros it didn't matter much which type of rpm packages i used. but just in case you can't install or compile it. i'd be glad to compile it for you. providing you have an i686 cpu. not really in the mood to mess with my config files right now, lol. i'm also new here btw, so hello fello noob. :-) theres an irc option in gaim.... but i have no clue what i am supost to do whats a rpm? amd 2600+ cpu.... if thats means anything... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
noriko 0 Report post Posted June 10, 2006 if it does, then i don't recommend using it. it sucks..:-) imho.. rpm is an install package format --- like ... .exe installers, and .msi files on wndows. others include .. *.deb , *.package, *.gz ..... ..... i can't help on the install path since i don'r know what distro you are using. post your distro.... but i can help in compiling. you could do something like... cd /tmp wget http://www.xchat.org/files/source/2.6/ tar yxf .tar.bz2 cd xchat-2.6.4 ./configure make sudo make install the last command sudo ~ doesn't work... then login as root (su or login root) then make install providing there are no errors you will have an xchat system up and running. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
anyweb 490 Report post Posted June 10, 2006 for Suse all you need to do is this yast --install xchat and insert the CD that it asks for cheers anyweb Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
1ajs 2 Report post Posted June 10, 2006 for Suse all you need to do is this yast --install xchat and insert the CD that it asks for cheers anyweb fedora core 4 cd umm i don't have the cd's........ my friend took them with him........ and i don't have a cd burner... also not my internet conection its the niebors and i don't need to be maxing it out as its my only conection the world right now Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
znx 24 Report post Posted June 10, 2006 theres an irc option in gaim.... See if this helps? http://www.kplug.org/ircchatsetup/gaim-irc/index.html Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
1ajs 2 Report post Posted June 10, 2006 theres an irc option in gaim.... See if this helps? http://www.kplug.org/ircchatsetup/gaim-irc/index.html that helped txs Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
anyweb 490 Report post Posted June 10, 2006 sorry i read the first post in this thread and assumed you too were using suse, but seeing as it's fedora it's easy just do this (if you have an internet connection), no cd's needed yum -y install xchat hard wasn't it ? ;-) cheers anyweb Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
1ajs 2 Report post Posted June 10, 2006 sorry i read the first post in this thread and assumed you too were using suse, but seeing as it's fedora it's easy just do this (if you have an internet connection), no cd's needed yum -y install xchat hard wasn't it ? ;-) cheers anyweb huh i did not install anything i just used gaim now i get this msg on the linux room..... (16:24:50) Please register with services and use the IDENTIFY command (/msg nickserv help) to speak in this channel tried the comdan says no such user ect Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
1ajs 2 Report post Posted June 10, 2006 sorry i read the first post in this thread and assumed you too were using suse, but seeing as it's fedora it's easy just do this (if you have an internet connection), no cd's needed yum -y install xchat hard wasn't it ? ;-) cheers anyweb huh i did not install anything i just used gaim now i get this msg on the linux room..... (16:24:50) Please register with services and use the IDENTIFY command (/msg nickserv help) to speak in this channel tried the comdan says no such user ect now it works grr this is a pain in the ass Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
znx 24 Report post Posted June 10, 2006 /msg nickserv help Nickserv .. you will have selected to join FreeNode (another IRC community). We are on one call EFNet, you can replace the server "irc.freenode.net" with one of these (select one near you and use the "name"). Then you can select "#linux-noob" as the channel to join. Hopefully you will then get to see us Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RvMan56 0 Report post Posted June 18, 2006 sorry i read the first post in this thread and assumed you too were using suse, but seeing as it's fedora it's easy just do this (if you have an internet connection), no cd's needed yum -y install xchat hard wasn't it ? ;-) cheers anyweb Can yast do that, install from the net? Kelly Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
anyweb 490 Report post Posted June 18, 2006 i think so you need to configure it's source though see here http://www.novell.com/documentation/nld/in...ta/bsj9nxz.html and http://mgalug.org/books/suse/updateit Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lia 1 Report post Posted June 22, 2006 Welcome! ) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RvMan56 0 Report post Posted June 22, 2006 i think so you need to configure it's source though see here http://www.novell.com/documentation/nld/in...ta/bsj9nxz.html and http://mgalug.org/books/suse/updateit Well thanks, I have had so much trouble getting suse to work I switched to xandros 3.2 after the post, apt is working well for me now and I have mplayer working all most, I get an error trying mov ext but it is playing mp3 for me, so I am getting somewhere at least, nice forum. Thanks for the Welcome. Kelly Xandros 3.2 until 4 is released...... M45 Toshiba Laptop Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
