rpm for some reason is excuted by file roller?

furtivefelon · 02-09-2005, 08:02 PM

hi, i have just successfully installed Fedora Core 3.. when the first thing i try to install is a mp3 player.. for some reason, when i excute rpm files, the program that greets me is File Roller, i have no idea what that is except it's a archive program.. what does that have to do with installing a program? can someone tell me how to install a rpm package?

Bruce Hill · 02-09-2005, 08:07 PM

What method do you use to "excute rpm files"
in your system. If you are using a file manager
and simply "clicking on it" as you did in Windoze,
then you must change the file association for
that type of file.

There is a thread in LQ about installing RPMs
that you should read.

perfect_circle · 02-09-2005, 08:08 PM

You are using Linux. This means you should be a haevy console user.
so first became root:

Code:

su

And as root you install an rpm package with the rpm command:

Code:

rpm -ihv <rpm package>

furtivefelon · 02-09-2005, 08:11 PM

ok, when i click on it just as in windows, however, the first program they are opening would be file roller, it's webpage can be found at: http://fileroller.sourceforge.net/, i have no idea why, red hat 7 or 8 is just excuting it (i used red hat 7 or 8 about 2 years ago :|).. anyone know what's happening? and no, i'm still getting through the intro to linux on The linux documentation project.. lol.. so i'm a complete noob..

perfect_circle · 02-09-2005, 08:19 PM

Quote:

i have no idea why, red hat 7 or 8 is just excuting it (i used red hat 7 or 8 about 2 years ago :|).. anyone know what's happening?

Just associate it with "rpm -i", if you want to install rpms with clicking on them
right_click->open_with...

furtivefelon · 02-09-2005, 08:23 PM

sorry if i seem incompetent.. but i still can't get it to work.. what.. exactly, should i associate it with by right click -> open with...? it give me a list of programs.. though i have no idea what i should get it to associate with :|

perfect_circle · 02-09-2005, 08:37 PM

I'm not using gnome, but i remember you could add new programs in the list, from open with.

furtivefelon · 02-09-2005, 08:51 PM

don't believe i'm using gnome, i'm using KDE (seems better..), but it's still using that to excute..

furtivefelon · 02-09-2005, 08:57 PM

did some search online... it turned up with this link.. exactly as it's described.. i have no idea how to fix it.. anyone know?

link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla....cgi?id=133760

i also believe i'm using kde.. anyway to set that as default? my current session is in KDE

furtivefelon · 02-09-2005, 08:58 PM

erm.. it's marked as duplicate of this link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla....cgi?id=132804

sorry about that..

perfect_circle · 02-09-2005, 09:05 PM

Fedora uses gnome by default. Nautilus is the file-manager of gnome, and i don't think this is a real bug. In Fedora gnome looks like KDE.

It's really simple to do that, I just can't remember a step by step instruction to give you, since i haven't used fedora for 2 mounths.
But you 'll have to be root to install an rpm, and i really recommend to do this from a console.

furtivefelon · 02-09-2005, 09:23 PM

mmm.. i logged on as root, it still opens the rpm by file roller.. still haven't got a single why it's not working :|