Installing GNU Packages on Red Hat 9

[scythekid]

Hi all, I just installed Red Hat Linux 9 Publisher's Edition, which is the version that comes with Red Hat Linux 9 For Dummies. I'm browsing the GNU site, found a couple of programs I'd like to have installed but one problem-I cannot figure out how to install the suckers. They all say things like type in cd and do this and do that, but where do I actually type in cd and this and that? Any help would be much appreciated!

Keep Linuxing,

scythekid

[bsm2001]

You have to open up a terminal.

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1. Have you read the book yet? ;)

And welcome.

[bosox79]

Hi scythekid,

Welcome to JL, it sounds like you will need to compile the software before you can install it, this http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Software/Compiling_Software.html
should help explain the processes. can you post a link to some of the software you want to install? and we will see if we can find you an easier way to install the packages via rpm ( please no flames I know compiling software is not hard but it can be donting sp? task task at first :D ) and yes you will need to open a root# console/terminal

[scythekid]

Okay, I just read the part of the book that deals with RPM, RedHat Package Manager. The first thing it said was to goto System Tools>Packages. Well, there's no such file named packages. There is Add/Remove Applications, but I couldn't find anything with that. Then I looked furhter into the RPM section, and I tried a whole bunch of commands like this in the terminal: rpm -c /home/username/Downloads/filename.tar.gz and a whole bunch of variations on that. I got nothing. I also tried rpm -i and some of the other commands for the RPM. I am wanting to download GCC and some other development programs (not to mention a whole slew of other non-development related applications). It says I have GCC already on here, but when I goto /usr/bin, and find the GCC file, it doesn't do anything except run in the background and to find I have to goto system monitor, and from there I still can't utilize it. I'm sorry for being so Linux ignorant! Thanks,

scythekid
scythemanakin@hotmail.com

PS-I try to find things out on my own, but when I get this far and haven't reached my goal, I have to ask. Again, I'm sorry for my ignorance!

[bsm2001]

Add/Remove Applications

click on that button and check the devel packages for installation then it will ask for the disks and install all the dev. pkgs you select.


PS-I try to find things out on my own, but when I get this far and haven't reached my goal, I have to ask. Again, I'm sorry for my ignorance!

We were all new at one time.

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by scythekid
I am wanting to download GCC and some other development programs (not to mention a whole slew of other non-development related applications). It says I have GCC already on here, but when I goto /usr/bin, and find the GCC file, it doesn't do anything except run in the background and to find I have to goto system monitor, and from there I still can't utilize it.

Doesn't do anything except run in the background? Are you attempting to run gcc by itself?

Most new Linux distro users seem to forget that most include quite a bit of online documentation to help out those starting with Linux.

Have a read at

https://www.redhat.com/support/resources/howto/rhl9.html

as those docs should answer most of your questions. :)

[scythekid]

I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who's helped me. I at one time had RH9PE on here, but put Windows XP back on instead. I finally decided I wanted to get Linux back on there and now I have nothing but Linux. I was having these problems the last time, but now I have a more detailed idea of what's going on, so I wanted to thank everyone for contributing to that detailed idea. Thanks everyone, I'm going to keep working on all of this.

scythekid

[bosox79]

your welcome :) & thank you for your kind words :D keep working with Linux & keep searching for answers and posting questions