armagetron or other downloads, packaging

andywarhol · 05-28-2005, 03:39 PM

ok i want to download armagetron, but also this question applies in a more general way because for anything i might ever want to download/install, i dont know how on linux.......

anyways i have fedora core 3, gnome interface

from

sourceforge.net/project/show...ckage_id=119930

i dont know which files to download

and then once there downloaded, someone was saying somethign about using a packaging management thing to install them all or something.........How do i do this part?

andywarhol · 05-28-2005, 03:40 PM

wait that link is bad

sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=110997&package_id=119930

andywarhol · 05-28-2005, 03:41 PM

and im a complete newbie on linux, so allllllllllll the details help

XavierP · 05-28-2005, 03:53 PM

Fedora is an rpm based distro, so you will be best advised to grab the ones ending in .rpm.

andywarhol · 05-29-2005, 12:56 AM

ok so i download all the .rpm files.......the are in my cauldron, how do i make the magic happen?

andywarhol · 05-29-2005, 01:58 AM

after i download all 4 .rpm files to my desktop, i double click each one, and independently i install each package so that its in my "queue"......but after i do this........nothing happens.......still 4 files on my desktop........still no game..........What else do i have to do besides install each independetly?whenever i double click one of the files it says "this file blah blah has already been installed / [ok]"

XavierP · 05-29-2005, 04:46 AM

Open a console, cd to the directory with the .rpms in and (as root) type in

Code:

rpm -ivh <the filename>.rpm

and hit enter.