Using downloads

[Rickdog]

I just downloaded Real Player 8 and Acrobat Reader for Linux onto my system set up with Redhat 7.1, but I wasn't sure where to put the files or how to get them to install so that they will work with the browser etc. Thanks for any suggestions that may help me to get these programs to work. :confused:

[scanez]

So did you download them as rpms? If so then to install

rpm -ivh blah.blah.blah.rpm

for each one. What browser are you using? Once we know we can help you setup plugins and what not.

SC

[Rickdog]

I'm using Netscape Navigator that came packaged with Redhat 7.1 from a boxed set.

Not knowing better, I downloaded the rp8_linux_sparc.cs1.bin file and the linux-ar-405.tar.gz file for Acrobat Reader. I didn't realize they had RPM files. My box is a K6-2 400MHz with 128 megs RAM. I used it with Windows 98 and could do pretty much all the multi-media. It has a Hitachi DVD player and 7.67 Gig Hard drive partitioned for Linux only. I will look to get RPM versions of these downloads and that should get me going . When I try to use the Gnome RPM, it says that my files do not appear to be RPM packages, that's why they won't install, I guess, anyway thanks for the help and reply. If you know where I can get RPM's for programs like Real Player 8 and Acrobat Reader, I would greatly appreciate the URL. Rickdog :confused:

[rattus]

There _should_ be an .rpm of the Acrobat Reader on one of your CD's. If not, there will certainly be some way to view .pdf files (xpdf? gv?).

I don't know about Real Player - but I do know that the tar.gz you've downloaded is no good to you anyway. You've got a version for sparc cpu's - you have an x86.

You'll probably find that the tar.gz of acro is an installable binary - open a term, cd to the directory you've downloaded it to, then type:
tar -xvzf linux-ar-405.tar.gz

This should extract the archive into another directory (I wouldn't begin to guess what directory - maybe acroread?)

cd into the directory, and list the contents - you're looking for a file called setup or install - maybe with a .sh on the end.

For some reason, this is much easier to do than to explain. Now type:
./whatever_the_name_of_the_file_was.ext

And you should be away. Although acro won't show up in your package database.

I don't have a DVD-ROM, and i don't use RedHat, but I've heard people complain not too far from here about DVD's and Linux.

If DVD is important to you, you'll probably have to keep Windows around for a while.

[Joeri Sebrechts]

rp8_linux_sparc ? That's the sparc version instead of the x86 version, which you should've downloaded.
To get the correct version, go to this page: http://proforma.real.com/real/player/unix/unix.html
Then select "linux 2.x (libc6 i386) RPM" from the OS dropdown, and download that. Afterwards you can install it with
rpm -ivh filename
You might have to rename the downloaded file so that instead of ending on _rpm it ends on .rpm

The other file is a tar.gz, which is the equivalent of zip in windows, so that means you have to extract the contents by typing
tar zxvf filename.tar.gz
I have no idea what's inside of it though.

[Rickdog]

Thanks to all who replied. I found out by searching the web that the gzip, gunzip, and tar files are all in the "/bin/" and when run using the command "tar xvf filename_tar" I untarred the tarry Acrobat Reader download. It works on demand. Using the gnome file manager allows you to do some of these steps almost as easily as Windose once you get the hang of it. Looking forward to learning lots more about Linux now that I've had a litte success. Thanks again, Rickdog :)

[Nekopa]

This might help
I found that some of the addins for netscape work if you untar them to your netscape/plugins directory. This worked for me when I had to get the flash plugin working. The real player plugin has an install program which put the files in the right place

Good luck and welcome to Linux

Lee