“I am trying to install AOL Instant Messenger for Linux. It came
in .sh format. When I click on it (to install) I get the error:
Could not execute program aim_linux.sh
Do I need to get a special archiver program for this file? Is
there another way to install AIM for Linux? Does it come in another
format?”
“The program you mentioned in your original messages is
made by AOL, and is a java application. It wasn’t specifically
designed for Linux but it does run on Linux if you have Java
properly installed.”
“You can get AIM like applications for Linux from a couple of
places. GAIM seems to be the most popular and furthest along. There
are others as well, like KAIM (which keeps changing its name so
don’t count on finding it), LAIM which pretty much has stopped
building an interface and is just building a library, EveryBuddy
which does connect with AIM server as well as ICQ, and Jabber
which, last I knew, still had issues with connecting to the AIM
servers. Finally there is Tik which was also built by AOL and
requires TCL.”