I know this is FAR too elementary a question to ask here, but after successfully getting Suse 9.1 Professional installed on five machines, getting them networked and downloading some easy packages like Firefox, I'm completely stuck.

I'm embarrassed to say I don't have a clue how to install KDE 3.3 or anything else that requires downloading of RPMs. Frankly, I don't have a clue what to do with them. I tried downloading Konstruct based on other posts here, but I couldn't get that installed either. Pretty much everything I've installed before either had an installer or could be done through YAST.

I've been through books and tutorials that talk about executing shell commands, but it never seems to work.

I don't expect an education here, but if anybody can point me to an ABC guide to installing rpms, I'd be awfully grateful!

Carl

This is what the forum is for! Your question is fine in my opinion...

If you ever need any help on a command you could always visit the man pages by typing in konsole man commandinquestion i.e.: man rpm

To install rpm's you can use this command: rpm -iv filetoinstall.rpm

There are many options to use but that is the basic command I usually use to install rpm's.

-i for install

-v for verbose

Let us know if you need any other help...

Thanks -- that's a big help.

With KDE, there are about 50 rpms. Do I have to do that on every single one, or can I use a wildcard? Please tell me there is a shortcut!

I know some of these links are for Mandrake, but rpm
applies to other distributions. Ignore urpmi.

rpm
http://www.mandrakeclub.com/modules.php?name=Mirrors
http://www.urpmi.org/
http://rpms.mandrakeclub.com/ (mandrake)
http://www.mandrakeclub.com/article....ode=nocomments (mandrake)

Hope these links help.

Sheng-Chieh

AAARGH!

OK, I finally figured out that they were in the wrong place. Put all the RPMs in /usr/src/packages/rpms/

Problem is there are about 75 files, with so many dependencies, you can't install one at a time. Each just balks because it conflicts or has other dependencies, but you can't install that one because it has still MORE deficiencies.

There's got to be a way to just install KDE 3.3 AS A PACKAGE -- hasn't there?