Hi All,
I am fairly new to the Linux User Group (although I do have network
experience with Novell, Windows, & Mac). I am very interested in hearing your
thoughts, opinions, philosophies on Installing, removing, managing, and
running Applications on the Linux platform.
I am currently working on understanding the RPM. I have 4 different
applications I downloaded from the net but am not sure how to get them up and
running. In DOS or Windows you have Install or Setup.exe (or bat). In Novell
you load NLMs. I guess my questions are these:
1. What are the different ways to install (and uninstall) Linux programs?
And what do you prefer, recommend? Especially for Newbies.
2. Once installed (say with RPM) how do you know where the program
installed itself? Also is there a preferred place to install Apps on a Linux
box?
3. Is there a common way to run Linux apps (like an exe file on DOS/Win )?
This is a fairly important topic to me. After all without Applications a
computer is just a very expensive paper weight. Maybe it would be possible to
dedicate a night or some time at one of the gnhlug meetings for this topic. I
know it might bore some of the seasoned linux folks but it could really help
out some of the newer users.
Regards!
Vince
McHugh
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