Installing programs
I am running Yellowdog 3.0.1 on an old Powerbook G3 233. I wanted to know how to install applications in Linux. For example, I downloaded a driver for an Orinoco wireless card, but I am unsure at this point how to proceed with the driver's installation. The driver is archived as .tar.
Roland :) |
Open a terminal window
tar xvf file.tar tar xzvf file.tar.gz tar xjvf file.tar.bz2 Sometimes you may come upon a file with the .tgz exstention which is just a renamed .tar.gz file. don't confuse it with a slackware package. man tar one you extract the files be an sure to read the install readme instructions. |
Basic Commands
Darwinboy;
Here are a few links for great information on using Linux, Chapter 4 of the first link has the basic commands. http://www.linuxman.com.cy/rute/node1.html Additionally the Linux beginners course is a great help. http://www.linux.org/lessons/beginner/index.html :study: |
Untar and unzip the file as said above.
But rather then manually doing all this stuff use the yum utility which is used to automatically update and install/remove rpm packages. It can also be used to quickly and painlessly get information related to new package updates. Dependencies are checked automatically prompting the user with the related information. -Prasanta |
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