On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:43:12 -0500, "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >Bo Berglund wrote: >> I have just installed Fedora7 on a virtual machine and now I would >> like to get my email program on there as well (Thunderbird). >> So I went to mozilla and downloaded the Thunderbird install files. >> But now what? >> >> I am used to Windows and there usually is a "setup" or "install" >> program one executes, but here I have a gz archive that I have >> unpacked to a /Thunderbird folder in my home dir. Lots of files and >> folders. >> But what do I do now? >> >> As you may understand I am completely new to Linux so I could probably >> only use GUI tools. Is there a manager for installed programs in >> Fedora7? >> >> >> Bo Berglund >> >You are doing things the hard way. Well, I simply opened the Thubderbird webpage in FireFox and it brought me to a page with a prominent "Get Tbird for Linux" button, which I used. The next thing was a box asking if I wanted to run or save the file. Selected Run but it saved anyway. That's where I got... >Chances are, Thunderbird is already installed. How can I find out? >If it isn't, you can download/install it by >running, as root, "yum install thunderbird". Sounds like a simpler way than what I did.... Of course you'd have to know that such a command exists. >If you want to install >the version you downloaded, there are fairly complete instructions >at the same place you downloaded Thunderbird from. I'll have a look again. > >Because you are new to Linux, I would advise you to use yum to do >the install, or the Install New Software menu item, and select it >from the list. If you install things without using yum/rpm, you can >run into problems when you go to install other software because the >system will not know the packages are installed, and will tell you >you need to install them if other packages require them. > I'll go the yum way then. Bo Berglund
