Installing software
 

I am having a little bit of a hard time trying to install software in Linux. I am new to Linux and I have been trying to install Superkaramba. I have not been able to get it to install because of all of the dependencies that I run across.

Is there anyone willing to help me get on my feet and help me to learn to figure out exactly what I need and to get software installed correctly?

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

First... Welcome on LQ!

Please tell us the distribution you're using. The prefered method for installing software is:
- Mandriva: rpmdrake (found in control center); see also "easy-urpmi".
- Redhad: yum.
- SuSe: yast.
- Debian (or Debian-based): apt-get.
- Other... I don't know.

Yves.

I am currently running the Redhat distribution.

I have not tried using yum. How should I go about doing that?

Errr... yum yum ? LOL

Honnestly, I don't know (appart from the evident: rpm -i yum), because I'm a Mandriva user.

Someone else?

Yves.

Run "man yum". Older versions of Redhat may not have yum.

When I try "man yum", it says "No manual entry for yum".

I am using Red Hat 9.

I have been trying to install yum. I think I have it installed and then when I try to run it, I get the following output:

:Pengy: There was a problem importing one of the Python modules
required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was:

No module named yum

Please install a package which provides this module, or
verify that the module is installed correctly.

It's possible that the above module doesn't match the
current version of Python, which is:
2.2.2 (#1, Feb 24 2003, 19:13:11)
[GCC 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-4)]

If you cannot solve this problem yourself, please send this
message to <yum@lists.linux.duke.edu>.:Pengy:

Anyone have any suggestions?

Anyone have any suggestions??? :(

Don't bump your own threads unless they have not recieved a reply in a 24 hour period (LQ Rules). Redhat 9 didn't use YUM so you won't find many repos for it, but try fedoralegacy. I think they have an rpm for Redhat 9, but they only provide security updates since Redhat 9 and below reached their end of life sometime ago. If you want a modern distro then try Fedora Core or Redhat Enterprise Linux (descendents of the old Redhat Linux).

Fedora Core
 

I am now trying Fedora Core.

Everything has been running smoothly now.

Thanks everyone! :)