BRAND newbie...

[inkedmn]

great board, i'm REALLY glad i found it...

so i'm a microsoft kid who's developed quite a hankering for something different. so i picked up the retail box of red hat 7 a couple weeks ago and i've installed it about 3 times (on a dual boot with win98). i'm just reinstalling over and over until i get familiar with it. i was able to browse the internet, etc. but whenever i downloaded a app, i had no idea how to install anything, etc.

so my question is, i've downloaded a program, how do i run it?

any info would be greatly appreciated!


brett

[ColdPack]

Here ya go kid!
Have fun! Welcome to the club!
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/distros/redh/rpmcheat.html
Essentially, since you're using RedHat 7.0, this is a quick and dirty explanation of how to install your .rpm packages which look like this: packagename.i386.rpm or something similar (the other packages you can download are called tarballs which can look like packagename.tar.gz or packagename.tgz etc.)
The above link tells you about rpms.
There is also an issue with dependencies -- pakcages your newly downloaded package needs to be able to run properly.
There's another help file for that at http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/software/rpmdependency.html

Again, if you have any further questions, come on back and we'll get it working for ya.
Good luck!

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[This message has been edited by ColdPack (edited 02 January 2001).]

[inkedmn]

damn, dude thanks for replying so fast!!

since you're all so nice right off the bat, i have another question. i've got a TON of mp3 files on a fat32 partition. is there any way to access those from within redhat? i'm assuming it will involve mounting drives (another thing i'm clueless about)...

thanks again!!

brett

[wmHardRock]

You can access them alright. Issue the following commands as root
mkdir /win ==> This will make a mount point
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /win
xmms /win/mp3s/*.mp3

If sound doesn't work, use sndconfig. And some of these parameters may change (like the location of your mp3's)

vince

[mdwatts]

Here's a NHF on software install and compiling http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/compiling/softinstall.html

It's always a good idea for anyone new to go through the NHF's here. Very helpful...