I am new at Linux, I have RedHat 7.0 installed on PC and working. I have downloaded a freeware program and do not know how to load on the PC. I have one that is for the console and one for X11. I would like to know how or a web site were I can learn the commands.
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What program did you download?
If its an RPM package, generally you would install it with this command...
rpm -ivh pacakge.rpm
If you are compiling from source, its always different and you have to read any included READMEs, but often you can just do a...
tar zxvf package.tar.gz
cd package
./configure
make
make install
ChrisP
If its an RPM package, generally you would install it with this command...
rpm -ivh pacakge.rpm
If you are compiling from source, its always different and you have to read any included READMEs, but often you can just do a...
tar zxvf package.tar.gz
cd package
./configure
make
make install
ChrisP
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