Loading addiditional software in Mandrake 8.0

[frey]

I'm very new to Linux.

I purchased a copy of Mandrake 8.0 and it came with a companion disk with additional software on it. How do I go about browsing the cd and installing the programs on it?

Thanks,

[scanez]

Mandrake 8.0 huh? I think it mounts the cdrom on startup. So to browse

cd /mnt/cdrom

and you are in the cdrom directory. Then to install, say you want to install blah.rpm

rpm -i blah.rpm

Have fun
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[Malakin]

Use the software manager, a link to it should be right on the desktop.

[frey]

There are a ton of .rpm files. How do I know what each of the files are without loading them? The distribution didn't come with a listing of software.

[Malakin]

Use the software manager.

[vasah20]

If you are trying to install from another CD, you'll need to specify it in the sources. Otherwise, like Malakin said, use the software manager. You can either use the categories, or throw it into flat list, whatever your preference is.

Take a look around, because during the installation Drake doesn't tell you about some of the included RPMS (JDK for instance)