I am running RedHat 5.1 (installed from a distribution CD). It is a
486DX2-66 running a 500Mb harddisk with 32mb RAM and a 64Mb swap space
on the HD. I still have plenty of room on the drive to install
software.
I am trying to learn Linux from the HowTo docs, but did not find one
on how to install software and in what locations.
Hope these details help.
John Gammon
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_________________________________ Subject: Re: Installation of
software from the web...
Author: Jonathan Sprague <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at internet1 Date:
9/10/98 5:56 PM
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I want to install some software to my linux system. I have the
files > on a disk and want to know where to put them in my linux
os.
>
> Some of the files have a .gz extension and some have an .rpm
> extension. I have them for character based linux and some
pgrms for > X11 environment.
Really depends! What distribution do you have? Redhat? Slackware?
If you have Redhat (or have rpm installed) you can install an rpm file
with "rpm -i name_of_file.rpm", and it will be installed where its
supposed to be. A file with .gz or .tgz or tar.gz can be installed by
copying the file to your "/" directory and open it with "tar -xzvf
name_of_file.tgz" and it usually (but not always) will create its own
directory or install itself where it belongs. Again it depends! Give
us more details!
