yes you have to be in root, unless you have set your nornal login to
superuser equivalent (which you shouldnt do) As for where the program
installs, I would assume that it installs in whichever directory you are
currently in, I actually wanted to use rpms at first, but the tar.gz is
better, simply download your files in tar.gz format and at the prompt type
tar -xvzf <filename> and it'll install in whichever directory you are in.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael E. Dosier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2000 11:42 AM
Subject: [newbie] remove
> remove
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of andy barnes
> Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2000 10:29 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [newbie] Where do Programs Go?
>
>
> When you install an RPM, you have to be in root, don't you??
>
>
>
> OK..when you install, where does Linux put this program.. Bear with me
> as I'm used to a Windows environment, where it puts it either onto your
> C drive or into Program Files on C drive, and you kind find an .exe even
> if you can't see an icon to click..
>
>
>
> When you revert to user, I can't work out how to run a program after
> it's installed.
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Andy
>
>
