How to open .deb files ?
 

Hi members,

I am a newbie to the world of linux and today i have started my internet on linux after a long session of hardwork. For some fun i have downloaded yahoo messenger for Red hat linux and saved it on my desktop. I have logged in as root. Now i wanna know how can i use that "ymsger......386.deb " file .

I know that some of you might be laughing at my question but i am still asking it because i commit that i am a newbie and i wanna be a master.

A faithful friend
realnapster

Hi, and welcome to Linuxquestions :)

Nobody is laughing at you. It is great that you want to try Linux, this place wont scare you away. Thats for sure.

If you are running Redhat as you write, then you downloaded the wrong file. Files with .deb extension is for the Debian distribution.

Use this link:
http://messenger.yahoo.com/messenger/download/unix.html

Grab the file corresponding to your Redhat version. Follow the Redhat three step how to :)

Thats it.

.deb files are for Debian and Ubuntu only, for a Red Hat system you need RPM or .tar.gz files. anyway if u were in debian here's what it would be

$ dpkg -i (filename)

in order to build Tarballs tar.gz

$ tar -zxvf (filename)
$ cd (created directory)

then read the readme, the usual sequence is

$ /. configure
$ make
$ make install

however it varies so read the readme, also you cant use .zip in linux as far as i know

It is possible to unzip .zip files in linux. There are other answers as well, but unzip certainly does exist for *nix systems.

Peace,
JimBass

sweet, didnt know that