running installed programs
 

this is really lame, I installed a program from an rpm package and now I have a folder full of .bin files etc.
Thing is I can't get it to run, I'm wondering if there's a shell command that I need to use instead of just clicking around like a muppet :)

Thanks for anything you can offer,
SQR

to run files: ./<filename>
to install rpm's: rpm -ivh <rpmname>

Lets says you installed the wine rpm.(Since I'm having current issues with wine) After installing the rpm you can do:

whereis wine

This will spitback the location of the wine program. If there was a file called wine.bin in /usr/local/wine that you wanted to run you could do:

/usr/local/wine/wine.bin

and it would run the wine.bin executable assuming that the permissions are correct. If you are in the /usr/local/wine directory and you want to run wine.bin you would type:

./wine.bin

Hope this helps!

Thanks
 

Cheers guys, thing is I'm now in windows since I haven't even got my dialup account setup under Mandrake. Redefining newbie, one day at a time...

While I'm here, if there's a shell script file should I run that or just hunt for a .bin? I like the sound of whereis, it should come in handy.

Thanks again,
SQR

for your dialup: run pppconfig as root

Hi total noob here too. Is there a good list of commands like this somewhere? Thanks.

Yes, there are many, many, many sources of basic Linux commands and enough information out there (not to mention, here) to make any newbie an expert in a matter of... well it depends, but try this site, you'll not be disappointed.

www.google.com/linux

thanks.:)