help installing programs from the shell

sempuritoza · 01-20-2005, 03:38 AM

hi all

i am completely new to this side of the OS world and i am struggling like never before, i cant even install dev c++ on my machine cause.

what exactly is the process to installing programs, generally from what i have seen first you unzip the *.tar.gz file then after unpacking that you start running scripts and eventually get something up and running.

what i would like to know is where can i find a good tutorial that explains these steps ( i.e. whats going on during these processes ) and another issue i have is deleting folders that already have content in them - a mixture of subfolders and files - what shell command do i use for this?

i am running mandrake 10.1

thanx for any help

scuzzman · 01-20-2005, 03:45 AM

Here is a very good tutorial written by jeremy on this very subject.

sempuritoza · 01-20-2005, 05:25 AM

thanx for the reference, its the type of thing a beginner like myself can understand

djabbot · 01-20-2005, 09:05 AM

ok. similar question. except the programs i downloaded came to me in .bin files but they arent executable. in the properties for them it says they are Shell Scripts. if i click them it doesnt do anything. if i try to open them in shell it says command not found and i ran apropos on them and it said no command appropriate. i find it weird that they are .bin files but they are not executable like the rest of the bin files in my usr/bin folder and have the shell icon next to them.

jkobrien · 01-20-2005, 09:30 AM

In a terminal window...

chmod u+x filename.bin
./filename.bin

But be sure that you know what the file does and that you trust the source.

J.

student04 · 01-20-2005, 09:43 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by scuzzman
Here is a very good tutorial written by jeremy on this very subject.

Though, Mandrake has the rpm stuff, and if there is already an rpm for that program, it'd probably be easier to just install the rpm.

This will search for packages you don't have installed yet, and can install from the sources you have.

Code:

# urpmi --fuzzy <search-string>

This will install a package that you don't have downloaded

Code:

# urpmi <package>

The first will install an rpm, and the second will upgrade a package, the third will remove one, the fourth will list all packages, and the fifth will search for packages within that list

Code:

# rpm -ivh package.rpm
# rpm -Uv package.rpm
# rpm -e package.rpm
# rpm -qa
# rpm -qa | grep <search-string>

-U means upgrade if it exists
-i means install
-v is verbose
-h makes a progress bar with ######
-e is "erase", or uninstall
-q is query
-a is all

Hope this gets you started...

djabbot · 01-20-2005, 11:58 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by jkobrien
In a terminal window...

chmod u+x filename.bin
./filename.bin

But be sure that you know what the file does and that you trust the source.

J.

ok. thats gettin me there. except im running into this:

Code:

Preparing to install...
Extracting the installation resources from the installer archive...
Configuring the installer for this system's environment...
No Java virtual machine could be found from your PATH
environment variable.  You must install a VM prior to
running this program.

now in another thread someone said to edit my .bash_profile so it would point to my java folder in this line, which i did.

Code:

PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:/usr/share/java

but apparently it still isnt working.

maybe im not linking to the right folder. this is the contents of my java folder that im linking to.

Code:

[adam@localhost /]$ cd usr/share/java
[adam@localhost java]$ ls
jaxp_parser_impl.jar@     xerces-j2.jar@
oldjavalayer-0.1.1.jar    xml-commons-apis-1.0.jar
oldjavalayer.jar@         xml-commons-apis.jar@
oldlogi.crypto-1.0.7.jar  xml-commons-resolver-1.1.jar
oldlogi.crypto.jar@       xml-commons-resolver.jar@
xerces-j2-2.6.2.jar

i thought i installed java right. is there something else i need? or a different folder that i should be linking to? did i edit my .bash_profile correctly?

btw. what im trying to install is Lime Wire and an ID3 editing program called Jaikoz.