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6 Replies Last post: May 22, 2008 6:21 AM by willem1940nld

Getting started with installations and commands

May 19, 2008 5:43 AM

Click to view vince.steele's profile vince.steele 1 posts since
May 19, 2008
Hi, Having installed Freespire 2.0.8 I find myself frustrated that CNR won't install anything onto my system (window firees upwith "initalizing" and then closes again, and I can't find a way to uninstall and reinstall it. My searches have only led me to commands like "sudo
apt-get install cnr-client" where I don't yet understand the context never mind the actual command. Can someone point me to a place where all the usual installation and support questions are spelled out for newbies?
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Click to view JDoyle's profile JDoyle 208 posts since
Nov 27, 2007
1. Re: Getting started with installations and commands May 19, 2008 5:57 AM
A newer version (then what is in the default install of 2.0.8) of the client is availabe here:

http://packages.cnr.com/data/ubuntu/gratis/pool/c/cnr-client/0.2.3799-0cnr1~feistyskipjack1/cnr-client_0.2.3799-0cnr1~feistyskipjack1_i386.deb

The install instructions are here:

http://www.cnr.com/supportPages/aboutDownloadPluginInstructions#56.0

It says Linspire, but the procedure for Freespire is exactly the same. From the directory the .deb is in, run the command:

sudo dpkg -i cnr-client_0.2.3799-0cnr1~feistyskipjack1_i386.deb

JD

Click to view willem1940nld's profile willem1940nld 4 posts since
May 20, 2008
2. Re: Getting started with installations and commands May 20, 2008 1:21 PM
in response to: JDoyle
Looked into the links and I downloaded something I cannot find back. Copied the command and pasted into command line, no visible results. I cannot understand all the explanations, am not that much a technician and moreover, I read something about Freespire as being made for people who like a system to work for them, not the other way around.

Had the old Freespire-1 long ago and there I could uninstall things, but seemingly not (yet) in No. 2.0.8. Also, there I could see everything I had once installed; does such list no more exist?

Languages (I need Dutch) seem not present, although offered even at first install screen (F2).

I downloaded and installed aMSN through CNR. At first instance, it worked but it did not open the mailbox; then after computer restart, it froze red and dead in tray bottom right and after hitting it again there were 2 of them ... red and dead. So, I really need to uninstall aMSN in order to re-install, because at re-install attempt from CNR list I only get the message "already installed". Maybe the settings I gave it "sign in automatically and only start minimised in tray" do not work out well?

By the way, this aMSN is an antiquated version, I used No.97 already under a different Linux (SUSE 10.2).

EDIT: Language matter meanwhile resolved; a compatriote of mine on a Dutch Linux Forum showed me how to download/install the language using "search"(Dutch) in CNR and thereafter manipulating things in Control Center (that last part kind of confusing by the many suggestive titles on knobs there around). But the screen language with me is now Dutch alright.

Click to view willem1940nld's profile willem1940nld 4 posts since
May 20, 2008
3. Re: Getting started with installations and commands May 20, 2008 4:51 PM
in response to: JDoyle

I found out that "client" landed into /tmp file (3 times meanwhile) so I opened /tmp and gave the copied install command (shell...). Things seemed to install, as per screen movements.

Still, cannot find out how to uninstall software, i.e crippled aMSN. (By the way, I am now using Pidgin messenger with my MSN ID but neither this one can open the MSN mailbox).

Does /tmp file mean same thing like in Windows, = "temporary" so may/must be purged; then, how? There is really a lot of stuff inside, fattening my harddisk.

Click to view JDoyle's profile JDoyle 208 posts since
Nov 27, 2007
4. Re: Getting started with installations and commands May 20, 2008 5:05 PM
in response to: willem1940nld

OPen the client by right clicking on the CNR icon in the system tray and select Launc CNR.

To uninstall software on the system select the package in the CNR client and click the uninstakk button.


Anything in the /tmp directory can be deleted. It should purge at boot up.


JD

Click to view willem1940nld's profile willem1940nld 4 posts since
May 20, 2008
5. Re: Getting started with installations and commands May 21, 2008 1:53 AM
in response to: JDoyle

Thanks! Silly I did not even come to the thought of looking there myself. I am rid of the crippled aMSN now, will consider to try and re-install because new 0.97 worked fine under at least SUSE 10.2 Linux already.

Further, just looked and found /tmp perfectly clean, so one or more reboots and possibly the hours I slept obviously incited the purging.

Click to view willem1940nld's profile willem1940nld 4 posts since
May 20, 2008
6. Re: Getting started with installations and commands May 22, 2008 6:21 AM
in response to: willem1940nld

Further, about aMSN: I have to give up re-install, as it obviously seizes back old history and re-installs as immobilised as it latest was.

I kind of remember similar experiences under some earlier Linux, even as "successfully" applicable to other messengers like Gaim, Kopete; total format and clean install then was the only solution and nevermore try another messenger than the one present from first start.

I suspect this to be a bug but I won't report (again) to bugzilla, too complicated to fill out and even more difficult to get rid of mail notifications over years.

Nevertheless, under some Linuxes aMSN does work without troubles.

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