How do i install downloaded .rpm's in mandrake? (newb)

[PimpHolic]

just yesterday i finally got my adsl up in linux :)
turns out the bastard was dhcp
so i am trying to get comfortable in linux and so far i love it.. i just need to know a couple things
how do i install rpm's?
when i download them, where on the hd do i save them?
how do unzip tar.gz?

btw, i am using mandrake 8.0 and i have windows/linux on same partition through lnx4win
thanks in advance

[demetrius]

Doesn't matter where you save them too. After they're downloaded just cd to the directory where you downloaded them to, su to root and install with rpm -ivh name.of.package.rpm. If upgrading an already installed package you'd use rpm -Uvh.

[PimpHolic]

thnx a lot man, that worked wonderfully

now how do i run this program?
i am running gnome and when i click on the foot (equivalent of windows start button) in the bottom left corner i cant find it under anything

[Twelveguage]

Also if you use KDE, you can click on the RPM file in the file manager and it will go through a wizard to install it. (kind of the newbie way though).

[cga]

Mandrake does have a GUI utility called RPMDrake that does all that stuff for you, but I kinda prefer doing it from the CLI like you did.

As to the menu, you need to access MenuDrake and simply update your Gnome menu.

[undef]

if it doesn't show up under the program menu, it's probably doesn't have a gui or it's not meant for the window manager that you're running, but you can still run it from the CLI. start X and open up a terminal and type in the name of the program that you just installed.

[fow99]

rpm -Uvh