Finally, after a long searching and research, I was successful in installing DimDimv4.5 in my Debian Lenny Stable Version. We have been facing a lot of problems because we needed to use RPM based distros for DimDim but that was not really desirable.
At last I was able to test the installation, but with crashing browsers. All of my browsers crashed after starting the DimDim server. Moreover, other applications didnot open up as well. The terminal was good, nothing happened to it. I just let the DimDim server running and tested it from other PCs.
I had tried the same process of installation in Ubuntu 9.10 but my GUI became unstable. It kept on flickering, I don’t know why.
I strongly recommend to continue this installation in fresh PC. DONOT use development mode PCs.
This is what I did to make my installation. The most of the parts are from a very well complied French tutorial which showed me the way.
I don’t know why, but they need OpenOffice3 as a clear dependency to install DimDim. So grab your copy from here .
Just extract the tar file and install all the debs in the DEBS folder in it.
Note: You must be root.
# tar xvf Ooo_3.0.1_LinuxIntel_install_fr_deb.tar.gz
# cd OOO300_m15_native_packed-1_fr.9379/DEBS/
# dpkg -i *.deb
Install Java 6 Next
# apt-get install sun-java-6
I have heard that SUN has been bought by Oracle, so there may be a different version of this command. Check out your local repo.
Then set some variables and environment for easier future reference.
# echo "JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.12" >> /root/.bashrc
# echo "export JAVA_HOME" >> /root/.bashrc
# echo "PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH" >> /root/.bashrc
# echo "export PATH" >> /root/.bashrc
Some more modules that may or may not trouble you. They troubled me, so it is better to have them in the latest version.
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