why would you mess with a source tar file when Rekonq should be in the Mageia repositories

I just googled mageia and rekonq and rekonq is in your repos so I'd suggest you install it that way.

http://pkgs.org/mageia-1/mageia-core-re ... 6.rpm.html

google01103 wrote:why would you mess with a source tar file when Rekonq should be in the Mageia repositories

when I look at add MCC [mageia control center] software>network>www
it's not listed with ther rest of the browsers, no idea why? [I know wrong forumn]
a search does bring it up

is there no way to install stuff on KDE outside of the repository without resorting to a dos prompt?

Rekonq does look promising [opens up a chat window in gmail], I'm not real happy with opera, which seems to eat up lots of processor speed & doesn't work very well with G+ webalbums or blogger

me loves me my Opera but I don't do Google chat

As package management is different for each distro (though some share the same tools) it's best to look to your distro for specifics, some gui packagement apps can install packages that are for your distro and version that you downloaded (not in it's repos) by using one of your directories as a package source. Installing source from git or tar balls means you need to compile it and that really is a command line activity (there used to be some gui's that assisted but I think they're no longer supported/available). Compiling also means you need various compiler tools and various dev packages installed.

google01103 wrote:me loves me my Opera but I don't do Google chat

As package management is different for each distro (though some share the same tools) it's best to look to your distro for specifics, some gui packagement apps can install packages that are for your distro and version that you downloaded (not in it's repos) by using one of your directories as a package source. Installing source from git or tar balls means you need to compile it and that really is a command line activity (there used to be some gui's that assisted but I think they're no longer supported/available). Compiling also means you need various compiler tools and various dev packages installed.

I use gmail, chat to send text messages to peoples phones
I don't get cell coverage out here in the boonies

on ubun 10.04/gnome2 if I clicked on a package that was uncompressed
software manager/synaptic would open & install
I figured KDE being far more versatile than gnome even thought about being, would have an even more user friendly way of dealing with outside software

thanks for the advice, I do appreciate your time [Toad too]

Rekonq works well with Picasa webalbums & Blogger I can devote it to that task
chromium has better download behavior [the new tab favorites set up is needlessly elaborate too]

no idea why it hasn't replaced Konquer as a standard feature of mageia kde