Books by O'Reilly & Associates are always good. And make a note book. ( I always forget what I did ) People on the list will ask "what changes did you make" Ahaaa "I forgot?" :-) Tim... ( still a newbie after all these years ) On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 07:54, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > On Saturday 16 October 2004 07:53 pm, A A wrote: > > hi all > > > > first of all i need to introduce myself a bit. not only am i a new user of > > Fedora Core 2, i am a newly converted linux user. (i'm sure there have been > > many windoze rants posted here so i won't add to them) > > >>> snip > > > how do i install downloadable .rpm files? > > i was following some directions pretty good to get Xine (i managed to > > download all the files) however when the directions mentioned that i must > > be in root i got lost. also what location must the files be loaded to so i > > may use the commands in the terminal? > > > > i got loads more questions but don't want to flood the list just yet :) > > Chris: > Welcome aboard. In addition to the other advice that you've gotten, you'll > find a lot of valuable information in the list archives at these sites: > http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/ > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&r=1&w=2 > Both are well worth bookmarking. Try both. > > Two other great Linux tools are man and info. You can learn more about them by > opening a terminal and entering man man or info info. (Really.) For example, > Fedora provides a program called yum to handle the messy details involved in > downloading and installing rpms; man yum will give you a brief rundown on the > proper usage of the command while info yum will provide more background > information. > > -- cmg
