Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 20:39:14 +0900 From: Luke Kearney <lukek@meibin.net> To: Stephen Liu <satimis@yahoo.com> Cc: nelis@8ball.co.za Subject: Re: ICQ question Message-ID: <20040513203906.95E1.LUKEK@meibin.net> In-Reply-To: <20040513114223.95278.qmail@web40306.mail.yahoo.com> References: <1084441923.6210.2.camel@nelis.brabys.co.za> <20040513114223.95278.qmail@web40306.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Thu, 13 May 2004 19:42:23 +0800 (CST) Stephen Liu <satimis@yahoo.com> granted us these pearls of wisdom: > Hi Nelis, > > > > Has any folk run 'Kxicq' on FreeBSD before. Can I > > > talk to my friend if he runs MSN on Windows? If > > NO > > > kindly advise what will be the solution. > > > > you may want to try Gaim > > http://gaim.sourceforge.net/ for MSN support > > and others. > > > > /usr/ports/net/gaim > > Hi Nelis, > > FreeBSD 5.2 > =========== > > Tks for your advice. > > # cd /usr/ports/ > # make search name=gaim > Port: gaim-0.73 > Path: /usr/ports/net/gaim > ...... > > But the lastest version is > gaim-0.77.tar.gz > which has been downloaded to > /usr/home/download/ > > I expect to install "gaim-0.77.tar.gz" > Can I perform as follow; > # cd /usr/home/download/ > # pkg_add gaim-0.77.tar.gz > > Or > installing the package starting from its tarball > # cd /usr/home/download/ > # tar zxvf gaim-0.77.tar.gz > # cd /usr/home/download/gaim-0.77 > # ./configure > # make > # make install > > Kindly advise. TIA > > B.R. > Stephen two quick options spring to mind, either (A) cvsup your ports to the latest or (B) install what is there then using portupgrade upgrade to the latest. HTH LukeK -- Luke Kearney <lukek@meibin.net>
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