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every time I double click an icon and try to install something a window pops up and says "Nautilus has no installed viewer capable of displaying" then it says the file location and the file name. I'm trying to broadin my horizions in the computer field and not be totally dependand on windows.
for the RPM, RedHat has some sort of package manager, but I disremember the name, redcarpet? If all else fails, open a terminal (konsole) and go to the directory the file is in and type: rpm -i packagename.rpm
replace packagename with the real name of the package and it should install
for the tar.gz you type:
tar zxvf packagename.tar.gz
this will probably create a directory with the same name without the .tar.gz extension.
cd into that directory and type:
./configure && make install
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