hiya, im rather new to linux and thus mandrake. and i find installing certain programs really confusing. but usually i can figure it out. this progam however beats me. could anyone help me out here? heres the link

-.- it wont let me post the link because of the 5 post limit. the program is called LInpal and is at the ruinedsoft website. is you need the link then email me, ill email it to you. i think its also on sourceforge

and while were on the subject ive installed a few programs via .RPM files, but during the package installation it doesnt tell you were the executable of Shell script is, like with XMMS, i installed it via the RPM, now what? i cant find any method to acutally use it. help is gratly apreciated. =) thankies

I guess the program is installed. Try this:
- open a terminal and type:Post the results here.

i have the comressed file they provide, i just dont know what to do with the contents, theres no rpm or executable or shell script in it. i was asking what do i do with these files in order to use the program

is it a .tgz file? or a .tar...

if so you have to unzip the file and run the make command....


to get xmms to work, all you have to do is open Konsole and type the program name, like this
#xmms
and it should run
I may do this the long way, but here's how I handle a .tgz file:
open Konsole again..

Go to the directory where you have the file, say it's in your home directory, you should already be there.

unzip the file through the gunzip command:

example - #gunzip x (where x is the file name)

then untar the remaning tarball (.tar file)...Do this through the tar command.
you can run tar --help to get all the extensions possible, but i normally use this:

#tar -xvf (filename)

then cd into the newly created directory, and normally all you have to do is run make
ex: # make
depending on the file you have you might also have to run make install

Or... theres sometimes executables there... to run those use the ./(filename)

hope that helped.

i ran the make commond in the directory with the extracted files, herers what my konsole says

[root@ip********** root]# make /root/Desktop/linuxprogs/installers/linpal-0.5
make: *** No rule to make target `Makefile.am', needed by `/root/Desktop/linuxpr ogs/installers/kopete-0.9.0/Makefile.in'. Stop.

and i ran #xmms and i got this


/bin/sh: line 1: man:/xmms: No such file or directory


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