On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 06:54:33PM +0530, sujit sugathan wrote: > hi i'm new to linux & i dont know how to install tar & rpm files from cds. i > have FC3 installed on my system . please help me . any help rendered will be > appreciated. For rpms looking at: man rpm should help. But briefly: rpm -ivh foo.rpm should install the rpm and : rpm -Uvh foo.rpm should install the rpm is it is no0t installed or update the rpm if an earlier version is installed. For tars put the tar some where such as /usr/local/src the execute: tar -xf foo.tar or tar -xzf foo.tgz depending if the tar file is gzipped as well as tarred. That will normally produce a directory called foo that has in it the contents of the tar file. cd to the directory and see instructions for installing in documentation files hopefully found there. -- ======================================================================= We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. -- Oscar Wilde ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
