I am looking for a digital world clock like HsClock.
It has a source tarball and a .rpm file. I infer that the rpm
has binaries. I downloaded the rpm file, but now I don't know what to do next.

I am trying to avoid compiling source, because this machine has only 8GB HDD and 512MB RAM.
It's not a development machine, it's a net surfing appliance.

My distro is a modified Xandros, running on an ASUS Eee PC 701.

as root

repo is completely right, but if you type:

You'll see more information when installing.

Thank you for the prompt reply.
I went
su -
[password]
cd /home/user/D:
rpm -i hsclock*.rpm

I got
-su: rpm: command not found

Do I need to update something else first?

Is Xandros really an rpm based system?
I read on net that it is based on Debian. So you will need a .deb file for installation. Find one for your needed package. Or better use the package manager that comes with Xandros to install it.

Or install Alien "sudo apt-get install alien" , and convert it to hsclock to a .deb file I think the form is "alien your_file.rpm"

You can either try to find a .deb package for the needed application, or simply install the rpm/yum toolkit to allow direct RPM installation and updating. The preferred way is probably using a .deb package, because RPM packages tend be distribution-specific.
I don't see the reason why compiling from source code on your given system would problematic, as long as the GCC tools are installed. It's only a matter of:
./configure
make
make install
(all of these within the source directory and as root)

Debian

Thanks all for your informative replies.
I have learnt that Xandros is based on Debian, now it makes sense that its package installer looks for .deb files.

I just want a little clock that saves me from working out what time it is in Chicago, Brazil, Tokyo and Hamburg when I'm in Australia. Who knew it was so hard?

I'll look some more.

apt-get install gworldclock

Thanks.

But my inexperience still hampers my success.

>su -
>[password]
>apt-get install gworldclock
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package gworldclock

(Edit: Internet connection is OK. Only default security in place)

??

Aha. Success. Thanks to all.

I googled gworldclock with Debian, and found a download. My first install attempt failed with unmet dependencies, so I tried with an older stable version.

After 20 years of Microsoft, I think I like this Unix world. Lots of free stuff, not too hard to learn, and a very supportive user community.

My main reason for using Unix was the smaller footprint on a machine. I can (now) re-image this machine on Win XP or on Unix. The Unix load takes less time and everything runs so much faster.

One question about this forum: (I have looked for the answer, no luck)
If I click the thumbs up icon to add a thank you, then clear the thank from the thread(Remove your Thanks link), does that take back the thank you from the other person or just clear it from my local display of the thread?

Cheers,
Neil.