Thx much, your explanation was concise & wonderfully phrased. :) Ever consider a job as a support person!? :P I know I appreciated the answer as it outlined some answers to my own questions I had yet to ask of the list.
Merci Monsieur Parish Femme Brian Parish wrote: > > Heather, > > No thickness or slowness is evident. Your willingness to ask "simple" > questions is I am sure appreciated by many readers of this list. > > Anyway... > > The great thing about RPMs is that they know what to do with > themselves. I find the easiest way to deal with them is to download to > my home drectory and then in a console do the following: > > rpm -ivh name-of-app.rpm > > The ivh means: Install Verbose Hash > > Install is obvious. Verbose means tell me what you are doing. Hash > means to print out 50 hash marks indicating progress. > > If you are upgrading a package rather than installing it the first time, > substitute a "U" (uppercase) for the "i". (Note: NEVER do this if > installing a kernel). > > One other useful tip is for when you are installing a number of packages > which depend on each other. Rather than trying to sort out which to > install first, just put them all in a directory, cd to it and say: > > rpm -ivh * > > or > > rpm -Uvh * > > if upgrading. The U option will be the same as "i" if the package was > not previously installed BTW. > > Now - it worked, but where did it go? > The answer - it depends. You knew that didn't you? ;-) > > Usually it will end up with the executable in /usr/bin, which will be on > your path. First thing to try is to log in as a normal user (you did > the RPM thing as root of course) and type the app's name in a console. > If this works, you know you are looking for a binary of that name in a > directory on your path (probably /usr/bin). > > If it's a GUI app and you would like to make an icon for it, do this in > KDE or something similar in other environments: > > right click on the desktop > click on "Create New" > click on "Link to Application" > click on the "Execute" tab > click on "Browse" > find your app and select it > click on the "General" tab > replace the words "Link to Application" with whatever name you would > like to appear under your icon > click on the gear icon and select something appropriate (or not) > click OK > > Now you should be able to execute your new app by clicking on the icon. > > Finally, there is also a more scientific method find the files. After > you have installed the rpm, use the command: > > rpm -ql package-name > > this will list all the files, including directories. Sometimes it can > be tricky working out what the package name really was. > > rpm -qa | grep first-part-of-name > > can be useful here. The qa is query all, which by itself gets you a > complete list of all RPMs installed. The "| grep ..." bit pipes the > output of the query into grep and searches for the characters you > typed. Here's an example: > > $ rpm -qa | grep kernel > kernel-2.4.8-26mdk > kernel-source-2.4.8-26mdk > kernel-doc-2.4.8-26mdk > kernel-2.4.8-34.1mdk > kernel-headers-2.4.8-26mdk > > HTH > Brian > > On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 09:17, Heather Reed wrote: > > Hi again > > Sorry to be asking all these stupid questions. I uninstalled gaim from >software manager, and downloaded a newer version, which I have stored in my root >directory. However, I can't get either software manager or package manager to find it >(KDE). In package manager I set /rrot/ as a search path, but still nothing. I tried >to install it by clicking on the icon, and it went through an install procedure, >telling me it had been installed successfully, but there is no icon for it, so if it >has installed, I don't know where it is! I know I am still mentally in windows, so >have probably done something wrong :-(( So - when I download rpms from the net, where >do I put them so that they can be seen by package manager or software manager, or >alternatively, how do I know the right directory to install them to using the console >or whatever is needed? > > Once again, apologies for being a bit thick and slow :-)) > > Heather > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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