aMSN RPM


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hey guys..

anyone know where to get, or has an RPM for aMSN 0.83 for fedora/redhat?

looked on rpmfind and rpm.pbone and they dont have one

the only reason i want an rpm is so that i can get tray dock working. Its trying to tell me i dont have imlib installed when i try to compile the plugin, but i know i do. THere is an RPM for 0.83 for MDK but it doesnt work.

pete.

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u dont need an rpm, if u extract the .tar.gz it will all work

to get the tray dock working:

*assuming you have cd'ed to the amsn base dir

cd plugins

cd traydock

make

this is the code for a script i wrote to update amsn, it downloads extracts and compiles the latest cvs version when ever i tell it to, u mite wanna use this aswell:

#/bin/bash

cd /home/mike/downloads
rm -f amsn_cvs.tar.gz
cd /usr/local
rm -f amsn_cvs.tar.gz*
rm -rf msn
cd /home/mike/downloads
wget http://amsn.sourceforge.net/amsn_cvs.tar.gz
cp amsn_cvs.tar.gz /usr/local
cd /usr/local
tar -zxvf amsn_cvs.tar.gz
cd msn/plugins/traydock
./configure
make
echo "aMSN Updated Successfully"

in this script, i extract amsn into the folder msn under /usr/local (see lines 10 through 12)

run this script whenever you want msn updated (i usually run on boot)

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u dont need an rpm, if u extract the .tar.gz it will all work

to get the tray dock working:

*assuming you have cd'ed to the amsn base dir

cd plugins

cd traydock

make

this is the code for a script i wrote to update amsn, it downloads extracts and compiles the latest cvs version when ever i tell it to, u mite wanna use this aswell:

#/bin/bash

cd /home/mike/downloads
rm -f amsn_cvs.tar.gz
cd /usr/local
rm -f amsn_cvs.tar.gz*
rm -rf msn
cd /home/mike/downloads
wget http://amsn.sourceforge.net/amsn_cvs.tar.gz
cp amsn_cvs.tar.gz /usr/local
cd /usr/local
tar -zxvf amsn_cvs.tar.gz
cd msn/plugins/traydock
./configure
make
echo "aMSN Updated Successfully"

in this script, i extract amsn into the folder msn under /usr/local (see lines 10 through 12)

run this script whenever you want msn updated (i usually run on boot)

sexy updater man...I might have to copy that code from ya and use it myself...

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feel free to use it, obviously you will need to change a few locations

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1) the download dir (doesnt really matter, aslong as your user has write permissions) for me it is /home/mike/downloads

i run this as root, so, location doesnt matter for me, this is also why i specify /home/mike rather than ~ becuase as root ~ points to /root

2) the dir where amsn is extracted / 'installed' to in my script it is /usr/local because well, thats where i put everything, but. thats just me, others may wanna change it

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also, the CVS update comes out every 3 hours, most of the time it isnt very different (Thats why i only run once per day)

if you would prefer to use the latest stable version (pff who does that) then you need to change the wget URL and also the cp and tar commands (the .tar.gz of the stable is different to the cvs version

have fun with it, hope it answered your questions----

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u dont need an rpm, if u extract the .tar.gz it will all work

to get the tray dock working:

*assuming you have cd'ed to the amsn base dir

cd plugins

cd traydock

make

I know how to install it, but the problem is that it is telling me that imlib cannot be located, and it is installed.

i dont know heaps about linux, but im getting there. I know it is installed. i just dont know why it cant find it.

I ahve the right version installed also, so its not a version problem.

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