targz and how to install

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mo, den 22.11.2004 schrieb Chris Hewitt um 22:03:

> If you are running Fedora Core then you already have licq. Do a "which
> licq" and it should come up with something like "/usr/bin/licq". If it
> does not then you may not have it installed. On this FC1 system it is in
> the licq-1.2.6-1.rpm. 

Just as a note: current FC3 does not longer ship with licq.

> I would advise installing from rpm files whenever you can. These have
> dependency and file layout information correct for FC. A site such as
> http://www.rpmfind.net can be useful to find rpms for programs that do
> not come with FC (and there are a lot with FC).

See Rahul's advise. rpmfind.net is mostly a bad hint for newcomers as
they tend to install the wrong RPMs and then they often enough shoot
their system.

> Chris

Alexander


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