donderdag 23 juli 2009

How to install software in Linpus Lite on the Acer Aspire One

I wanted to install an irc-client on my AA1. I decided xchat was an ok option. I will post a step by step installation.

  1. First open a terminal screen. This can be done with Alt-F2 and run program xterm.
  2. Use the software package manager yum to install xchat. Yum is installed with Linpus. On the command line, type yum install xchat to install.
  3. Now the program is installed, but it's nice to have an icon in the connect-menu. The install made a file named /usr/share/applications/xchat.desktop with a desktop entry, containing links to an icon and the executable. This file we want to present to the menu.
  4. The menu is located in /home/user/.config/xfce4/desktop/group-app.xml, an xml file. Now look for the group where the first app is <app sequence="0">/usr/share/applications/linpus-web.desktop</app>. You can put the icon at the end, by adding the line <app sequence="9">/usr/share/applications/xchat.desktop</app> at the end of the apps, but I preferred to give it sequence=2 and give the other sequences an increase of 1, so xchat is displayed on the home screen.
Well, this installed xchat for me. In this way, you should be able to install most of the programmes.

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