help installing any thing

cheshire057 · 01-24-2005, 09:11 PM

hi im vary new to linux and i installed fedora 3 today and i downloaded sidecandy and gDesklets and i wanna know how to install it and get it to work but i dont know any thing about linux, could some one tell me how to get it to work?

kinney · 01-25-2005, 05:15 AM

What kinda of file extension do the files have. All files have different methods of installing. If they are .tar.gz or tar.bz2 source files extract them using
tar -xzvf filename.tar.gz or
tar -xjvf filename.tar.bz2
and look for a INSTALL or README file and there should be documentation to install them.

overlord73 · 01-25-2005, 05:38 AM

if you downloaded the .rpm´s use a packagemanager or the console with:
rpm -ihv paketname

(as root!) ;-)