Suraj Fernandes wrote:

i didn’t see any tls folder in the /opt/bin

It’s /opt/lib, not bin (the full path is /opt/lib/tls1.50).
If the directory doesn’t exist, something gone wrong in the previous steps; did the “checkinstall” command give you any error?
mauro wrote:

i couldn’t execute it as a normal user neither from a terminal nor from the icon

Someone commented the italian version of this post, with a similar problem. The cause was a configuration file, stored in ~/.amsn, with wrong permissions. Maybe it was your problem, too! (that’s why I asked you to check the terminal’s error messages)
mauro wrote:

i wasn’t able to do that in my old instalation ’cause it just kept asking me to install tls

From repositories? It’s strange! The official amsn, tcl/tk and tcltls packages should work out-of-the-box!
mauro wrote:

for the moment i just wanted to chat like i did in winxxxxx.
thanks!

Try emesene, it should be better than amsn!

OT: mauro wrote:

love meeting new people! this is my e-mail […] if you want to chat…

I don’t use msn, but gtalk. When I’m online, you can contact me from my personal blog ( http://notoriousxl.blogspot.com/ ), using the balloon below the “About me” title.

PS: I edited your email address, to save you from spam.

Thanks dude, but it didn’t install properly, i didn’t see any tls folder in the /opt/bin

@ Notorious aka Andrea Romagnoli:
hi there,
no, i couldn’t execute it as a normal user neither from a terminal nor from the icon…
anyways, i gave up and solved the problem but in a bit of an extreme way… i downloaded debian lenny beta 2 netinst, formated my pc, and reinstall it from scratch, after that i simply selected aMsn from my package manager and it perfectly done the job for me, i wasn’t able to do that in my old instalation ’cause it just kept asking me to install tls (although i had it installed). Of course now i don’t have the antialiasing thing…
in the future when i have more time i’ll try this installation and let know, for the moment i just wanted to chat like i did in winxxxxx.
thanks!

OT: haha my grandfather was italian, i was born in argentina and i live here, i’m studing Computer Systems Engineering… love meeting new people! this is my e-mail mauro.lavigna AT hotmail DOT com if you want to chat…
cheers!

mauro wrote:

i could only run it as root and it had a million bugs

Could you execute aMsn from a console (as a normal user, not root), and paste here the errors you get?

(I know: aMsn and tcl/tk are a little buggy…)

OT: are you Italian?

yes, it must be a bug, i’ve tried changing permissions, finding the file ‘libtcl8.5.so’ and copying it myself to see if checkinstall could find it that way, and finaly i’ve tried avoiding checkinstall and directly execute make install command… everything seemed to work until i got to the last step and tried to execute amsn xD haha… i could only run it as root and it had a million bugs… so no luck for me today with this
maybe you would like to know that i have Debian/lenny for amd64 processors.. i thought that was the problem too, so i tried not adding the option –enable-64bit to ./configure, but it didn’t work either… i think i ran out of options…
if you figure out one please tell me!
thanks anyways

@mauro: it should be a checkinstall bug (or tk’s); try these commands:
su
chmod -R a+r /opt/lib/
and try to execute checkinstall…

the guide is great although when i execute the command “checkinstall -y –pkgversion 8.5a6 –pkgname tk8.5_antialias
” i’ve got the following problem:
==========================================
========================= Installation results ===========================
Installing libtcl8.5.so to /opt/lib/
chmod: changing permissions of `/opt/lib/libtcl8.5.so’: No such file or directory
make: *** [install-binaries] Error 1

**** Installation failed. Aborting package creation.

Cleaning up…OK

Bye.
==========================================

i can’t figure out why that is.. everything else seems to be right…
please help me!
thanks