It sounds like you are using GMC to browse your files, and you've run into
GMC's buggy support for RPMs. My suggestion is to not use the GUI for
installing RPMS. Open a terminal window, cd to the directory containing the
RPM, and run:
rpm -U [PACKAGE-FILENAME]
where [PACKAGE-FILENAME] has been replaced with the actual name of the driver
RPM. If you want to see more about what it's doing, run "rpm -Uv [PACKAGE-
FILENAME]"
If you must use a GUI, open up kpackage (it's in the Mandrake menus,
Configuration->Packages or something like that). Open up the RPM using kpackage
and install it from there. KPackage is the best GUI RPM manager I've seen; much
better than Mandrake's RPMdrake and GnoRPM.
I'd highly recommend reading up a bit on the Redhat Package Manager (RPM). just
type 'man rpm' in a terminal window. Understanding RPMs is vital to managing a
Mandrake system.
-Avdi
Quoting Joe Lore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi,
>
> I have Mandrake 7.2 installed and wanted to use the latest drivers for
> Linux
> that are posted on Nvidia's web site for my Gforce Annihilator Pro card.
>
> I downloaded the RPM and when I double click it, I get a list of files.
> One
> of these files is called install, if I double click that I get a text
> message saying "Run this to install the package".
>
> Not too sure how to do this or what to do next.
>
> Can anyone give me some guidance?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> j0e
>
>
