I've been using Debian for a few months and decided to give Fedora a try but I'm having some trouble and have a few questions for anyone willing to help

1. Right now I'm running Up2date on a Fedora 4 system, and when every package is installed, it asks "The package <package name> is not signed with a GPG signature. Continue?" and there's alot of packages it's going through. Is there some option to where it automatically agrees with this and continues on?
EDIT: I'm using YUM right now to install and update packages, does it do the same thing as up2date?

2. When I attempt to run any installing file (RPMs, Bins, etc.) i always get an error (Cannot execute binary file) what does this mean and how can i fix this?

I would suggest against the use of up2date. To solve the little issue you're encoutering, run the following command as root: `rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY*` . If the installtion is stil fresh, a little tip to get yourself up-to-date would be to run the following command: `yum -y update`. Depending on your connection, that will take alot of time.

How exactly are you attempting to run these files? The files themselves are not executable, this is at least true for rpms.

This link may prove useful with your introduction to Fedora: Fedora Faq

[QUOTE]Originally posted by pembo13


How exactly are you attempting to run these files? The files themselves are not executable, this is at least true for rpms.

i go into console as root and type
"chmod a+x filename" then i type ./filename

[QUOTE]Originally posted by quiggley

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Originally posted by pembo13 How exactly are you attempting to run these files? The files themselves are not executable, this is at least true for rpms. i go into console as root and type "chmod a+x filename" then i type ./filename

as Pembo13 stated, RPM's are not executable. You need to tell the program rpm to install the files inside the rpm package:

rpm -ivh <rpm package name>

where -i is for install
-v is for verbose
-h if for printing hashes (a progress bar)

You may find that the package you are trying to install has some pre-requesites (or dependencies). These will also need to be included on the same line:

rpm -ivh <rpm package name> <rpm package dependency>

However YUM does all this for you:

yum install <package name>

will include any dependencies automatically

Dylan