[LBo] IRC Client

[Lynn Gallup]

Hello to All,
This will be my first message which might become helpful to others.

Stefan got me started looking in the right direction. I searched the SuSE 
10.0 DVD and, sure enough, xchat was there. However, when I went to install 
it I did not find a YaST menu item "software installation" as Stefan 
suggested (I now believe that SuSE 10.x is quite different from earlier 
versions insofar as the operator interface is concerned.), so I used the 
method I had used in the past; right click on the RPM file name and select 
"install with YaST" from the menu which comes up. The result was exactly the 
same as before; I received the same old error message "...can't find 
xchatxchat..." and the install bailed-out.
But perseverance paid off and I found out how to do it. This is the 
procedure:

Start YaST.
--> Software --> Software Management
This brings up a rather intimidating search screen. In the "filter" textbox 
in the upper left corner, click on the down-arrow for a list of five 
choices. These will be: Selections, Package Groups, Languages, Search, and 
Installation Summary. Pick "Package Groups".
A new screen appears and on the left side of it is a menu tree. Scroll down 
to "Productivity" -->Networking --> IRC. On the right side will ten choices 
of software packages with check-boxes. Check the box for "xchat". Hit OK and 
a screen comes up requesting you to insert CD1; do it. This will happen for 
two more CD's and it does take a while for all the harddrive exercises to 
stop.
The installation program will end abruptly, returning you to where you 
started a long time ago.
So where's the program? It's not on the desk top and not front and center on 
the menu like Windows does it. It is neatly and automatically placed in your 
menu just where you will like it, under Internet --> Chat --> xchat IRC.
And It Works.

Clearly, during my original install of SuSE 10.0 I should not have selected 
"typical installation"; I should selected "everything you've got, Daddy-O"

Life is Good!
Lynn
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Stefan's Message:
> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 17:54:34 +0200
> From: Stefan Waidele <Stefan at Waidele.info>
> Subject: Re: [LBo] IRC Client
> To: qna at LinuxBasics.org
> Message-ID: <44C4ED3A.6000001 at Waidele.info>
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>
> Lynn Gallup schrieb:
>>  [...]
>> Is anyone using this particular xchat client under SuSE solved this 
>> problem?
>
> AFAIKT, xchat was included in all versions of Suse (at least in those I
> used when I had time joining the sunday's-chat-session)
>
> I simply went to yast2, software installation, searched for xchat and
> installed it.
>
> I usually install from DVD, so there might be differences to the
> CD-Version of Suse (as in: xchat might be included in the DVD, but not
> in the CDs).
>
>> Is anyone using an xchat client downloaded from some other source which
>> might work with SuSE?
>
> As said above: No.
>
> But a very good source for RPMs for Suse is Packman at
> http://packman.links2linux.de. They have RPMs for differend versions and
> processors for download.
>
> xchat is at
> http://packman.links2linux.de/index.php4?action=452&vn=2
>
>
> HTH,
>
> Stefan