Re: [newbie] RPM failures

2001-07-18 Thread John Rigby
Hi Sridhar, Thanks again for your help! But what I'm trying to do is avoid the command-line wherever possible and use the long-awaited friendly gui. Especially as I will have to teach it to a lot of utter computer novices in the not distant future. I personally already have enough troubles

Re: [newbie] RPM failures NOW: K. I. S.= S

2001-07-18 Thread John Rigby
Hi Sridhar folks, On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 14:39, you manipulated electrons to produce: On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 13:01, John Rigby wrote: Hi Sridhar folks, Well put, Sidhar, but missing the key point: Use as distinct from support. I would argue that GNU/Linux has _better_ support than does

Re: [newbie] RPM failures

2001-07-17 Thread Romanator
John Rigby wrote: Hi folks, No wonder so many people do give up on Linux! :-) I have downloaded for the second time ( in case of error) the IBM WEbsphere package and attempted to install it. All of the responses are fine all the way EXCEPT that the program is nowhere to be seen. Yet if

Re: [newbie] RPM failures

2001-07-17 Thread Romanator
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Tue, 17 Jul 2001 15:42, John Rigby wrote: Hi folks, No wonder so many people do give up on Linux! :-) I have downloaded for the second time ( in case of error) the IBM WEbsphere package and attempted to install it. All of the responses are fine all the

Re: [newbie] RPM failures

2001-07-17 Thread Romanator
John Rigby wrote: Hi Sridah, On Tue, 17 Jul 2001 16:08, you manipulated electrons to produce: What do you mean by the program is nowhere to be seen? The RPM is installed, right? Try this from a command line: rpm -q packagename ** Yup - says same as the GUI Manager:

Re: [newbie] RPM failures

2001-07-17 Thread John Rigby
I don't get what you're trying to do here. How are you searching? If its installed, you should be able to type the relavant command (IIRC, it's hpbuilder) to load the app. * I suspect it has something to do with WINE and how it is all supposed to startup as well. I have not

Re: [newbie] RPM failures

2001-07-17 Thread Alan Shoemaker
John Rigby wrote: But where has IglooFTP gone, as well?? JohnIglooFTP-PRO installs in the /usr/local directory. It's executable resides in /usr/local/IglooFTP-PRO/bin, but there's also a simlink in the /usr/local/bin (which is in your path) directory called IglooFTP-PRO, so all you

Re: [newbie] RPM failures

2001-07-17 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001 15:42, John Rigby wrote: Hi folks, No wonder so many people do give up on Linux! :-) I have downloaded for the second time ( in case of error) the IBM WEbsphere package and attempted to install it. All of the responses are fine all the way EXCEPT that the program is

Re: [newbie] RPM failures

2001-07-17 Thread John Rigby
Hi Sridah, On Tue, 17 Jul 2001 16:08, you manipulated electrons to produce: What do you mean by the program is nowhere to be seen? The RPM is installed, right? Try this from a command line: rpm -q packagename ** Yup - says same as the GUI Manager: is installed!!?? BUT no search

[newbie] RPM failures

2001-07-16 Thread John Rigby
Hi folks, No wonder so many people do give up on Linux! :-) I have downloaded for the second time ( in case of error) the IBM WEbsphere package and attempted to install it. All of the responses are fine all the way EXCEPT that the program is nowhere to be seen. Yet if I try to install again