On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Sean Winters wrote:
> First of all, let me say that even though I come from the NT world, I
> was able to install RH 5.0 and get it going on the network with minimum
> fuss. (A testament to the ease of installation, not my technical
> prowess.)
>
> I bought the RH Linux Installation Guide, and was loaned another newbie
> book, and have searched the man pages trying to figure out how to
> install programs. I downloaded Netscape from the net, but have yet to
> figure out how to install it. Obviously it is gzip'd, but when I attempt
> to run gzip -d [filename] a messages appears stating something about a
> core; this is presumably not a Good Thing.
The install package you have for netscape might have a .tar.gz
or .tgz extention. If so you have to use the command
tar -zxvf netscape_or_whatever.tar.gz (or .tgz)
z : because it has been zippep
x : to extract
v : I think to show you the extracted file
f : I don't remember at all, I should read the man page but I am too lazy.
BE CAREFULL, the file will be uncompress in the current directory, so
before executing this command you should move the archive in the
/usr/local directory.
Then go in the created directory and read the README or README.install or
linux.README ... There should be an install script.
But as you use a RedHat system, it would be easier to use rpm packages, it
is so much simpler (in general) and you have the rpm doc in the RH manual.
good luck
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