If your package type is not found here, Go to the Unix section for install directions for generic Unix-Like workstations.

1. Install Tcl/TK for your platform if it is not already installed. Tcl/TK can be downloaded for FREE from http://www.scriptics.com. If you are not the system administrator for your location, contact your system administrator for assistance.

2. Download The OpenVerse software here. This is an easy to instal RPM file.

3. Download Source package It is NOT REQUIRED to download the source package but people said I should make the src.rpm available so here it is :) (you still get the source code in the regular rpm, tcl/tk is not compiled.)

4. Install The OpenVerse program with the following command...

rpm -i OpenVerse-0.8-3.noarch.rpm

If you are upgrading from a previous version, use this command.

rpm -U OpenVerse-0.8-3.noarch.rpm

5. Run the OpenVerse program and click connect! thats it, just type to chat, you will learn it's features over time.

OpenVerse needs a symbolic link to the tcl/tk intrepeter at /usr/bin/wish but SuSE locates a symlink to the file at /usr/X11R6/bin/wish. You can get around this problem by creating your own symlink to the intrepeter on your system. A typical symptom of this problem would be the error message "OpenVerse: No such file or directory"

This problem is resolved in SuSE 6.4 and later.

To create the link, run the following command (as root)

ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin/wish8.0 /usr/bin/wish

Also, SuSE may only install an old version of wish by default. If you only have wish4.2 in /usr/X11R6/bin/ then you need to tell YaST to install the "new" version of tcl/tk. (8.XX or better!)

Once this has been done, rpm should install OpenVerse with no failed dependencies, or you may choose to run rpm with the --nodeps option first and then create the symlink after. Either way should work. If you have any problems with installation, you can email someone using OpenVerse on SuSE Linux here. beavis@openverse.org

1. Install Tcl/TK for your platform if it is not already installed. Tcl/TK can be downloaded for FREE from http://www.scriptics.com. If you are not the system administrator for your location, contact your system administrator for assistance.

2. Download The OpenVerse software here. This is an easy to instal DEB file.

3. Install The OpenVerse program with the following command...

dpkg --install openverse_0.8-3_all.deb

4. Run the OpenVerse program and click connect! thats it, just type to chat, you will learn it's features over time.