Ok, here is one of them. First of all, I downloaded them while I was in
Windows98 and put them on a floppy disk. The name of the file is:
splitv20x_tar.gz.
I know that I have to go to the root user account, but then what? Mount the
floppy drive, and from that point on I don't know what to do. I have
downloaded instructions that just say to: tar -xzvf filename and that will just
open it up, and then you run: ./configure, then make and then make install. I
tried the first thing while in the command line on the terminal and nothing
happened because first I have to get the file from the floppy and into the
computer which I don't how to do that. So, you see, I am totally stumped and I
am not finding the information anywhere, so I will be very appreciative of your
help and make sure that I print out this information. Since my printer is
unusable in Linux, I have to do all my questions on Win98. I have a HP Deskjet
722c, and have already found out that it is handled like a winmodem. Bummer!!!
At 06:58 PM 3/27/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Linda & Mike wrote:
>>
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> I'm Linda and I am almost brand new to Linux.
>>
>> I have downloaded files off the Internet and I want to install them. I
>> need a step-by-step intro into what I do when I want to install.
>> For instance, I download the files while on my own user account. Now what
>> is the next step. All the instructions in the books seem to over-simplify
>> the steps and, I am probably missing something obvious, but they don't work.
>
>It's going to depend on what their filenames are.
>
>If they're <something>.rpm, you can put them into your system by logging
>in as root, changing to your user's home directory (cd ~<username>), and
>typing 'rpm -Uvh <something>.rpm>'.
>
>If they're <something>.tar.gz files, they're possibly source code,
>possibly executable code. We'd need to know more about them in that
>case...
>
>Short answer? "Depends"
>
>--
>Steve Philp
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
