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Installing Downloaded programs
Name: SOday Date: February 4, 2003 at 05:16:23 Pacific OS: Mandrake CPU/Ram: 256Mb RAM 1Ghz P3
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i have downloaded the file "gdam-0.942.tar" from the net and have burned it to a CD on windows in order to move it to my machine runing mandrake. How do i go about installing this i'm very new to linux can someone give me a step by step guide thanks.
Name: STC Date: February 4, 2003 at 06:34:41 Pacific
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Look at the post of Brandon77 some houres ago.There is a very detailed answer.
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Response Number 2
Name: ArnoldF Date: February 4, 2003 at 07:11:38 Pacific
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if you use Mandrake/Redhat you should install from RPM packages - avoid tar/tgz/bz2: http://at.rpmfind.net/opsys/linux/RPM/suse.com/i386/8.1/suse/i586/gdam-0.942-101.i586.html
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Response Number 3
Name: SOday Date: February 4, 2003 at 07:14:24 Pacific
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yeah thanks i looked at that post anmd followed the instructions through, when i run the autogen.sh i get an errormessage about gtk-config, it says it can't find it any ideas, i can't instal gtk from the CD's all of them are ready installed.
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