On Wed, 27 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> What do the names of the packages you downloaded end in?
>
> Some of the packages I have are:
>
> Adobe Acrobat Reader = linux-ar-40.tar.gz
Acrobat is a bit of an unusual case (for Linux, anyway); it is a
binary-only, pre-compiled application, which can only be installed with a
special utility [1]. What you need to do is extract the archive using
tar -xzf linux-ar-40.tar.gz
Then change to the "ILINXR.install" directory that creates, and run the
install program with
./INSTALL
> Webmin (two downloads) = 1. webmin-0.80.tar.gz
> 2. webmin-0.81.rpm
This is easy:
rpm -ivh webmin-0.81.rpm
You're done!
> nmap (two downloads) = 1. nmap-2.53-1.scr.rpm
> 2. nmap-2.53.tgz
Looks like you grabbed the source RPM (SRPM) instead of a binary package.
That is what the ".src" in the name means. The SRPM includes the source code,
build scripts, and other things needed to compile the program. Normally, this
is only needed by developers and packagers. The easiest thing to do is likely
go back where you got that SRPM from and look for an RPM with "i386" (Intel
386 platform) in the name. Then install it like the install for
"webmin" above.
Hope this helps,
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