installing files in mandrake

[distorted]

yes i am new to the whole linux world and i was having problems figuring out how to install prgrams to my systems (ie.bsdftp)
can anyone help???

[scanez]

What type of file is it?

For rpm: rpm -ivh filename.rpm
For tar.gz: tar xzvf filename.tar.gz
./configure
make
make install

Any others you'd like to know?
SC