Installing RPM's

[Rastar]

I have grabbed a couple of RPM's lately from the rh rpm site. Both are applications and since I was logged in as a user GNORPM asks for the root pword. I get to the site find the rpm and click install. It does the install and all but, it does not actually write an entry into the menu's. How and where do I find these programs. It has installed menu entries for other programs just not some. Do I need to do a complete reboot after installing rpms?

Thanks
Ras

[linuxluis]

The best way of doing a rpm installation would have to be threw the terminal.

rpm -ivh <rpm file>

after that it should work, but if you want to reboot dont shut down the whole system do a

# init 1

after it does that and you return to the prompt do a

# init 3 or 5

after restarting check to see if the rpm was installed

#rpm -q <rpm name example: perl or apache>

that should tell you if it was installed correctly.

if you have trouble let me know ok.

tux :cool: