On Tue, 01 Jul 2003 01:22:02 -0700 Tom Lombardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> insightfully noted:
>I'm starting to get a handle on using the command line, but the book I >have fails to answer a few questions: > >1. How can you open a program like OpenOffice from the command line? ========================== Depending on the "path" you might have to type the full path to the executable command: ~/OpenOffice.org/ooffice (or something like that, depending on the version. ======================= >2. using just the command line, how do you install a program from the >.tar or .gz file you get from the download? ================================ tar zxvf downloaded.program.tar.gz now cd to the newly created directory ./configure make su [password for root] make install ============================= >3. How do you uninstall a program? (I need to wipe my copy of >RealPlayer clean and re-install it.) ========================== depends on how it was installed. RPM???? From source?????? ========================= >4. When you get good at using the command line, do you get to the point >where you don't even use the GUI (I have RedHat v8)? ============================ My window manager of choice (for now) is ratpoison. No menues, no icons. I have a few hotkey combinations in my .ratpoisonrc file to open some frequently used programs (e.g., sylpheed, pheonix, Textmaker, emacs, xmms, etc), then the rest from command line. ========================== >5. If you launch applications and all the rest from the command line, >does the machine run faster overall? ========================= Depends on the machine, but if you can avoid the more bloated desktop environments like KDE or Gnome, yes your machine will likely run faster. HTH, Mike -- "The man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life" --Muhammad Ali _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
