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karmapolice

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Registered: 2007-01-31

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How do I install amsn?

Hi,

I'm a newbie with arch and I was previously using Ubuntu.

I want to install aMSN svn version but I don't know the proper way to do this in arch. In ubuntu it was pretty easy to create a deb package but how do I create a package for arch?

I first tried to install 0.96 using the following guide: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ams … ased_fonts

but when I try

# cp -R /var/abs/community/x11/amsn .

well the directory doesn't exist and anyway I prefer to get a newer build and not 0.96

Thanks

BTW I really like Arch, it just took me like 4 hours to get a GNOME desktop, lol, damn ATi .

Mr Green

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Re: How do I install amsn?

Have you got amsn installed .... if you have then run abs as root... hth

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karmapolice

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Re: How do I install amsn?

Yes I have and btw it throws a Segmentation fault when I try to run it.

[root@inspiron local]# abs
Connected to cvs.archlinux.org
Updating collection arch/cvs
Finished successfully
Connected to cvs.archlinux.org
Updating collection extra/cvs
Finished successfully
[root@inspiron local]# cd /var/abs/local
[root@inspiron local]# cp -R /var/abs/community/x11/amsn .
cp: cannot stat `/var/abs/community/x11/amsn': No such file or directory
[root@inspiron local]#

Mr Green

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Re: How do I install amsn?

loaded here amsn &

[root@Arch x11]# pwd
/var/abs/community/x11
[root@Arch x11]# ls -la amsn
total 12
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2005-12-29 17:07 .
drwxr-xr-x 32 root root 4096 2006-01-05 20:37 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  705 2005-12-29 11:10 PKGBUILD

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Re: How do I install amsn?

You need to enable community first in /etc/abs/abs.conf. Then run 'abs' again and you should have /var/abs/community/x11/amsn afterwards.

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karmapolice

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Re: How do I install amsn?

[root@inspiron abs]# pwd
/var/abs
[root@inspiron abs]# ls
PKGBUILD.proto  devel    install.proto  local       office  x11-drivers
base            editors  kernels        multimedia  system  x11-libs
daemons         extra    lib            network     x11
[root@inspiron abs]#

Should I have anything special in my pacman config or any other file? or maybe it is somewhere else?

EDIT:
I'll try it, thx

EDIT:2

It is working but now how do I get amsn svn?

Last edited by karmapolice (2007-01-31 18:40:05)

Mr Green

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Re: How do I install amsn?

@karmapolice ... thanks man my abs was waaay out of date lol

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karmapolice

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Re: How do I install amsn?

haha np lol.

I'm still trying to figure out how do I install amsn svn version

Mr Green

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Re: How do I install amsn?

look in aur for amsn-svn ;-)

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