----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Parish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "newbie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 11:52 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] installing rpms
> Heather, > > No thickness or slowness is evident. Your willingness to ask "simple" > questions is I am sure appreciated by many readers of this list. > > Anyway... > > The great thing about RPMs is that they know what to do with > themselves. I find the easiest way to deal with them is to download to > my home drectory and then in a console do the following: > > rpm -ivh name-of-app.rpm > > The ivh means: Install Verbose Hash > Brian - thanks very much for your excellent step by step guide - much appreciated! I followed the instructions to the letter, but what I got at the console was a list of the various commands that could be used by rpm. I looked in every single directory, and couldn't find the gaim entry, and found a gaim directory in the usr/local list that was completely empty! I am cursing with frustration here - and definitely without a clue!!! Can you or anyone enlighten me? Thanks in advance Heather
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