Ok, noob looking for some linux help

[Bacheezi]

alright, yes I read the sticky, or tried to.

I bought myself an Asus Eee pc yesterday, of course the linux version. Im looking to install the eve online client on it for work, its a .rpm file, but whenever i type rpm -i eve-000066-1.i386.rpm it says:

bash: rpm: command not found, am i typing this into the wrong place or whatÉ (my question marks are being Ès today lol, need to restart)

if anyone could dumb this down even further for me that would be great, thanks

[oz]

Welcome to the forums!

I think the Eee PC uses Xandros, which is based on Debian, which uses .deb packages rather than the .rpm packages used by Red Hat, Fedora, Suse, and some others.

You might be able to convert the package using alien:

alien

...but you are generally better off finding a package that was built specifically for your distro if you can find one.

Best of luck with it.

[Bacheezi]

yes i found a .deb version of it, ty.

ya, im reading over the tutorial, but not understanding any of it... again, could someone give me a hand with thisÉ (dam question marks! lol)

[devils casper]

Execute this

su -
dpkg -i package_name

In case it throws error, post exact error message here and output of this

cat /etc/*release*

[Tsarevich]

EVE Online Support | Installing EVE Online on Linux

Did you go through?

[Bacheezi]

I typed in the cmd, and got:

(reading database ... 71157 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace eve 000066 (using eve_000066_all.deb... Unpacking replacement eve....
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of eve:
eve depends on python2.4-dbus; however: package python2.4-dbus is not installed.
dpkg: error processing eve (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

Errors were encountered while processing: eve

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does that mean i need to install.... python 2.4?

[Bacheezi]

bump hehehe

[HROAdmin26]

Copy and pasted from the EVE website:

Linux:

Minimum Requirements

* 32 or 64 bit Ubuntu 7.04 or higher, Linspire 6 or higher, OpenSuSE 10.2 or higher
* 64 MB GeForce FX class card or better, ATI graphics cards are not supported.
* 512 MB of RAM
* 6 GB of HD Space
* 1.1 GHz CPU

Recommended System Requirements

* 32-Bit Ubuntu, OpenSuSE, Linspire with a GeForce 6XXX series card or better, ATI graphics cards are not supported.
* 1.5 GHz CPU or better
* 1 GB of RAM
* Alsa supported soundcard

Kernel

* Kernel 2.6.20 or newer
* XFree86 4.0 or higher (4.3 is recommended) or the latest Xorg release

OpenSuSE Dependencies:

# python >= 2.4
# python-gtk >= 2.6
# gtk2 >= 2.6
# wget
# dbus-1-python

Ubuntu/Linspire Dependencies

* libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4)
* xlibmesa3 | libgl1
* python (>= 2.4)
* python2.4-dbus
* python-gtk2 (>= 2.6)
* python-glade2, wget