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jamesd
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Need some help getting certain apps for gentoox.

Post by jamesd »

Hey, new here.

Anyway, had gentoox on my xbox for a while, and yes, i've tried google. Anyway, is there any Bit Torrent Clients and MSN clients that will work with Gentoox?

If anyone could, please link me.

It would be a big help, since I want to make my gentoox machine more useable (i.e. having something on it useful apart from firefox :p)
jamesd
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Post by jamesd »

Thanks, but i'm still having problems.

Whenever I click to open the tar.gz package or rpm package, it won't open. Whenever I do it in the file manager, it brings up a 'open with' box up the top. Is there something I need to download for gentoox so I can open these files?

Gah, this is what you get from using Windows and OSX all your life :P
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Post by zlasher »

Read up on gentoo and emerge - Gentoo uses emerge packages to install apps.

http://www.gentoo.org

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Post by orochi »

you dont install programs on linux the same as windows, you need to use emerge for installing applications or compile them via source (not prefered with gentoo)
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