On Tuesday 15 February 2005 15:45, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > I downloaded thunderbird - I thought. It downloaded to home/rosemary/tmp > but when I went to tmp something called orbit was there. Download manager > says thunderbird was downloaed. What has happened? > > Thanks > Rosemary
In Linux there are several ways to install applications. Mandrake uses 'RPM' packages. Volunteers create RPM packages of all the popular (and many unpopular) applications. Installing an RPM package is very simple. You just click on it using konqueror web browser. Installing from RPM packages is much easier than downloading applications from web sites, and an awful lot easier than compiling. One advantage of installing RPM packages is that you will get a menu entry, and will not be forever wondering where that package you installed is. It is also easy to *uninstall* RPM packages. To make things even easier you can define online software sources from which your system can fetch packages and install them on demand. This is what the 'easyurpmi' site you have been exploring allows you to do. Not mentioned on the easyurpmi page is another site maintained by a volunteer Charles Edwards (who often posts here). Charles' site contains RPM packages for many of the latest applications including firefox and thunderbird. If you add his his site to your download sources then installing Thunderbird (and Firefox) is a simple matter of typing their names into the search box in the Software Install GUI. Charles' site is here http://www.eslrahc.com/10.1/ To add it to your online list, open a terminal, enter 'su' (without quotes), give the root password when asked, and then type urpmi.addmedia eslrahc http://www.eslrahc.com/10.1/ with hdlist.cz (BTW: In Linux Copy/paste is highlight with mouse/Press mouse wheel) Your computer will download the list of available applications and you can then install them with the GUI. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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