i have the same problem ! Nobody help us X(

Unfortunately the "new" client that was posted on October 16th, 2008 has an expiration date of May 6th, 1995. I have e-mailed the webmaster. (webmaster at cnr dot com) with no response. If you want to check it yourself run Sun Java 6 Web Start (in the internet folder of the run programs list). And a window for the Java cache viewer will pop-up, and you should see what I am talking about. Please e-mail the webmaster if you are having this problem I figure if enough of us e-mail him with the information the webmaster may actually do something.

Alan

I have gotten the error message before that I need Java 1.5 or higher to upgrade my CNR client, because the site didn't recognize Java on my Freespire system. Additionally the CNR client shows up as a Jar (Java archive) file. It is still possible I am wrong and I have heard nothing back from the webmaster. If anyone knows another way to check expiration date on the CNR client I would be happy to hear it.

Alan

If you're referring to the Upgrade tool, I wouldn't recommend relying on that, but downloading the latest CNR Client should resolve your issues...

Generically:
dpkg -i <some_app_name_here>.deb
i.e. from the console:
sudo dpkg -i cnr*.deb
or more specifically
sudo dpkg -i cnr-client_0.2.3799-0cnr1~feistyskipjack1_i386.deb
Hope this resolves your issues...

Happier with Ubuntu 8.04LTS, just finished trying CNR again and it installed. Unfortunately it does not seem to work.. So hasta la vista and good luck ya'll

Unfortunately many within the online linux community tend to talk geekspeak to newbies, making it hard for anyone to really learn. However if you talk face to face with a linux enthusiast there is ussually in my experience a much friendlier sharing of inforation. The CNR client comes with freespire unfortunately it is also sporadic. For someone migrating from windows I would recommend Kubuntu (KDE version of Ubuntu) and if you want the codecs (compression decompression routines) for Flash video or Windows Video, simply go to the applications pulldown menu, click on add/remove software at the bottom of the pulldown menu, then near the top of the window in the middle there is a pulldown menu select "all available applications", then in the search bar to the right of that enter Kubuntu-restricted-extras and finally click 'Apply changes' button near the bottom right corner. And you can search for codecs to install packages you want click on the selection box for the package and click apply changes , to remove software you click on the box for the INSTALLED software and click apply changes.

P.S. There are about 14,000 packes available this way and the search box makes it a lot easier.