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Re: AOL for Debian



You can't get the AOL Instant Messenger for Debian.
Debian is a Linux Distribution, Windows binaries won't work.

Am Mittwoch, 3. August 2005 18:14 schrieb Richard Wegner:
> Hi there,
>
> I hope I am asking in the right e-mail group.  I know of the program
> GAIM but I am wanting to download the official AOL Instant Messenger for
> Debian.  When I try and do this, I get a bunch of garbage on the screen,
> so I figure I do a "Save Page As..." and I type in the filename.  Well,
> I then do a "dpkg -i <filename.deb>" and it says since it was saved as
> ASCII I can't do anything with it, because it doesn't think it is a
> binary.  I then followed the instructions on AOL's website saying to
> right click it and save it that way, well when I do that it comes up
> with the file jasper.jsp or something like that.
>
> How can I get this then?
>
> Thanks..



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