What I generally do is search Google groups. You can find just about anything you want there. You can also download the JRE package, there is a link for it on http://mozilla.org you can use http://www.rpmfind.net to find rpm's But then again, a quick search of Google groups would have found that as well. I've used RedHat, OpenLinux and Mandrake and in my opinion, Mandrake is my dist. of choice
Michael On Thursday 07 November 2002 09:17 am, Gary Armstrong wrote: > Couple of questions from a true newbie: > > 1) How do you figure out the names of applications available to solve a > particular need? > > 2) In particular, I'm looking for the best FREE case tool. I'm trying to > demo argo(is there a better one?). The home page didn't appear to have > an rpm. How do I know if there is one out there in the ether? It also > requires jre which doesn't seem to be installed on my mdk9.0 machine. > Tried urpmi java and it doesn't appear to be on the CDs either, but not > knowing what it's called, this could all be a newbie problem. > > 3) I've been using the Mozilla browser. Its download manager doesn't > appear capable of restarting. That has already been painful. Can I get > it to use a different download manager and what would that be? Is there > some better way? > > 4) I've the seen the command to find rpms on the net go by several > times, didn't think I'd need it soon. Sorry for the assumption, but > what's the command to find rpms on the net? > > 5) How much difference is there between linux distributions? As in, does > the doc for one release apply to all? Is there some kind of enormous > organized FAQ out there? > > TIA > Gary -- Michael Lewis Nichestaffing.com Web: http://www.nichestaffing.com Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 970-472-1241 Fax: 970-472-8497 "Whatever you can conceive and believe, you can achieve"
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