I have installed linux AS3 text mode ,know i want upgrad it to
Graphical mode how can i do it at the command prompt?

Hi,

which Distro? In Debian you may re-run tasksel (very simple, but sometimes surprising in results, can remove packages you forgot to tasksel again), or apt-get install the graphics packages.

HTH, Peter

I could not get you

Hi hansi umayangan,

sorry for being unclear. My point is, that you have got to install the graphical user interface, consisting of the X (XFree86, ususally), a Desktop Manager (xdem, kdm, gdm) and the Desktop Environment (KDE, gnome, Fluxbox, ...).

For this requires a lot of libraries, and if you are not a knife-between-teeth compiler warrior, I suggest that you should use a package manager.

Unfortunately I still do not know, which distribution is on your box, Debian (and others) use the Advanced Package Manager apt, that automatically resolves package dependencies and installs everything you need in a breeze.

The SUSE distribution has a setup tool, YaST, that is equally easy to use - no big experiences from my side, how to use that, I use mainly debian.

Other distros (short for distributions) use the "Red Hat Package Manager" rmp to deliver precompiled binaries.

The knife-between-teeth-way is to sort out _all_ libraries required and get them as "tarbals" (tar.gz). After that, in the right order, unpack them and run

./configure
make
make install

unless the README or INSTALL of the package does not tell you to do different.

For the graphical environment being sort of voluminous, this could consume some time, coffee, hair pulled out and fingernails bitten, so for being a new Linux user, consider using the other means your distro includes fr your comfort.

Maybe http://www.kde.org/documentation/faq/install.html may help you, I recommend checking this out .

Was that clearer to you? Come back to me, if there is something that needs to be explained in more detail. You are welcome.


Hope ths helps,

Peter

My linux version is redhat AS3

what is this mean

./configure
make
make install

OK, a short introduction to "linux software installation without shoving your Mouse":

A "tarball-package" of Open Source distributed source code in most of the cases makes use of the "gnu automake system". So, if you unpack the tar.gz (aka tarball) Source Code archive, in the directory you unpacked it into, there is a script named "configure".

If you call it, it collects information about the syystem such as libraries installed, the architecture, the compiler and so on, and writes a "Makefile" for the "make" command, that compiles the source code distibuted in the "tarball" archive, to machine executable binaries.

To start this building process, the "make" command reads the "Makefile" and follows the instructions in it to build an executable binary.

The resulting binary is put in the proper directory (e. g. /usr/bin) by "make install", which also copies documentation and libraries to the places where they are supposed to be.

I call it "the hard way", because this is the very basic method of installing software on a *ix system. This "tarball" method does not only work for the specific distro you have chosen, not only for the OS type ("Linux" or "Solaris, for example), it even supports different architectures (Pentium x86 or SPARC or PowerPC), as the compiler of your *ix System knows how to build binaries from Source Code.

So, if you got a tarball with source code to be "hand made", the building of binaries can be made by changing to the directory the archive is unpacked to, and entering at the prompt:

#./configure
<tons of messages come up>
#make
<some more messages>
#make install

... and the software is installed and usable on your box.

That is the sheer power of Open Source Software!

For your Red Hat system, you can get precompiled x86-binary packages, so called .rpm files. These can be easily setup by using the "Red Hat Package Manager" command "rpm". If you have an .rpm file, you can install it by issuing the command

#rpm -i {nameofthepackagegoeshere}.rpm

note, that packages are often inter-dependent, so to install one software, you often have to install different other libraries befoer, until your system has the necessary libraries on it.

If you still have questions, don't hesitate to come back to me on that, you are always welcome.

Regards, Peter

Thank you for you’re help, know my KDE is running without any problem.

Thank you again