Installing Programs and using 2 network cards (not related to each other)

[Erk]

Okay, please bear with me, as I'm very unfamiliar with Linux...

First, the RBQ (Really Basic Question): How do I install a program using Linux? In Windows, I navigate to the relevent setup.exe or install.exe file, double click it, and then go through a series of set up screens, even in MS-DOS I just typed in the path and filename of an install.exe or setup.exe file. But how is this done in Linux? So far in SuSE 6.4 I've used YaST for the default programs on the distro disks, but I can't find a HOW-TO anywhere that goes through this most basic of processes (and certainly not one that might convince Windows users to conver to Linux...)

Second, how do I setup two network cards under Suse 6.4? I have tried to install SuSE 6.4 on a machine using the default installation routine YaST2 (I'm hoping to set up a small network with a proxy to control connection to the internet via a DSL link), but though I can ping the IP addresses for the cards successfully on the proxy, I can't ping from another Linux box (also running SuSE 6.4). The cards are both the same model, using RealTek 8139 chips, both are PCI and are sharing IRQ 10 on my motherboard...

Thanks for any help in advance...

Erk
:confused:

[Dark Ninja]

Well, I'm not good with the hardware side of things, so I can't help you with the network card...but...

Installing a program can be done a few different ways in Linux. It depends on the file format of the program you are installing.

If it is an .rpm file. Login as root, and do this:

rpm -i filename.rpm


If it is a .tar.gz file format login as a user and do this:

tar -xvzf filename.tar.gz
cd filename
./configure
make
su (root password)
make install

If the filename is a .sh, you can install it by typing

sh filename.sh (this is a script file, BTW)


Those are the basic file types, and, generally speaking, the ones you'd be downloading.


Dark Ninja