Found it guys... Thanks a lot!!!! don't know why but I was looking for an icon for GAIM instead of IM. Thanks, -B On Sun, 2004-08-22 at 08:46, Gary Allen Vollink wrote: > I find gaim under "Gnome foot">Internet>IM. If you are trying to > install a more recent version of GAIM (it was updated a few days ago), > then you need to use the upgrade flag for rpm... > > # rpm --upgrade gaim-0.81-1.FC2.rpm > > To find out what version of gaim you already have installed, you can > query for it... > > # rpm --query gaim > > If you don't use GNOME, AND you can't find an ICON for it... the > executable should be installed under /usr/bin/gaim. So you could run > gaim from a terminal window, or from a "Run" menu item (depending on > your choice of desktop manager). > > Good luck, > Gary Allen Vollink > -- > Admin/User of Fedora Core 2 for a week. > Admin/User of RedHat EL ES v 3 for 7 months. > Admin/User of various RedHat dists since 1999. > > > Beri, Rohit wrote: > > >everytime i try to install GAIM using rpm -i xxxx, I get the message > >that it already installed. Since then I have rebooted the machine but am > >unable to find any Icon for the same or locate the path where it got > >installed. > > > >any thoughts... > > > >thanks, > > > >-B > > > > > > > > > >