phone dialer

Forum: Apps
Topic: phone dialer
started by: lvalics

Posted by lvalics on April 21 2005,16:21

hi all, this is my first post here, I just discovered damn small linux.
I have a company where I want to install a modem in each computer and install a dialer, that users can use modem dialer (connected to phone line) and dial from computer.
I have discovered ANT Linux dialer, but when I tried to install with RPM or Source compiling, I cannot, cause seems is not in distribution.
Anyone can tell me how can I install rpm from command line? rpm -Uhv package (but get command not found)

Posted by clivesay on April 21 2005,16:26

RPM is not supported by Debain. You need to use an app called alien to convert the rpm into a deb. There is an aliendebs.dsl package in the repository under the systems catagory.

Good luck.

Chris

Posted by lvalics on April 21 2005,16:49

ok, I saw that there i also debian package, how I run on debian the command line? I use RedHat so far, so is new to me debian.

Posted by clivesay on April 21 2005,17:52

Make sure you enable apt from the menu. Once you have done that you can type as root:

Code Sample

dpkg -i <appname>.deb

This will install the package.

Good luck

Chris

Posted by lvalics on April 22 2005,04:08

One last question about DSL.
How can I remove some icons from desktop, I want to leave only Firefox, all the rest to delete.

Posted by cbagger01 on April 22 2005,16:26

Open up Emelfm

Press the "H" button to view the hidden files.

Go into the xtdesktop directory (.xtdesk??)

Delete all the files except the firefox lnk and png/gif/jpeg files or move them to another directory if you want to be able to "undo" your changes later.

Choose "No Icons" from the Fluxbox menu.

Then choose "Icons" from the menu.