Hi Henry, Fedora has excellent documentation. Since you are new you should go through this once. http://docs.fedoraproject.org/user-guide/f12/en-US/html/ On Sunday 11 April 2010 03:11 PM, Henry Wyatt wrote: > Need to know basics of how o install downloaded programs ie, Mozilla > Firefox 3.6 and Open Office, both files end in .gz > To answer your question, try http://docs.fedoraproject.org/user-guide/f12/en-US/html/chap-User_Guide-Managing_software.html As a general principle it is always preferable to install software available in the distribution's repositories. e.g. on Fedora you would use PackageKit/yum, on Ubuntu you would use synaptic/apt-get/aptitude and so on ... GL. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines