Hi On Apr 5, 2005 10:54 PM, kevin rodrigues kevin.rodrigues@gmail.com wrote:

Hi, I was a windows user. I just recently switched to fedora core 3. the learning part for switching to linux is very exciting. but i find one thing confusing. in fedora, when i want to install an application (rpm format), i have to install it from the shell using rpm command. is there an existing application in fedora which will allow me to install the rpm packages from the gui?

open a terminal in GUI and type #redhat-package-manager/config* it will show what all package are installed ...and what all package u want to install

also when i install applications in

windows, it gets added to program files folder by default. in linux in which folder do the application files go. why dont the applications installed appear in the start menu? it becomes very difficult to know what applications are installed.

if you have installed any package ... on cammand prompt type ... rpm -qa <package name>

enjoy

Rohan

please excuse me if i posted something wrong as i am quite naive in using linux right now. Regards, Kevin

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From: kevin rodrigues kevin.rodrigues@gmail.com Hi,

I was a windows user. I just recently switched to fedora core 3. the learning part for switching to linux is very exciting. but i find one thing confusing. in fedora, when i want to install an application (rpm format), i have to install it from the shell using rpm command. is there an existing application in fedora which will allow me to install the rpm packages from the gui? also when i install applications in windows, it gets added to program files folder by default. in linux in which folder do the application files go. why dont the applications installed appear in the start menu? it becomes very difficult to know what applications are installed. please excuse me if i posted something wrong as i am quite naive in using linux right now. Regards, Kevin

That is understandable. If you have an RPM, you can double click it in kde while browsing files. It will be automatically installed. Also, many applications, which are not specifically built for window managers dont appear in the start bar. But apps like XMMS, XINE, MPlayer do appear in the menus. To see which RPMs are installed you can issue:

rpm -qa

in the command shell. It will list the currently installed RPMs. Also, the prefered way to manage you system is through "yum" or "up2date". I recommend yum. Suppose you want to install xmms then all you need to do is:

yum install xmms ( in the command shell ofcourse ;) )

But you need a decent internet connection to use it ;). Check out yum and rpm's man page. You will get tons of info about them...

Regards,

Dinesh.

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Sometime on Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 09:24:06AM +0530, kevin rodrigues said:

Hi, I was a windows user. I just recently switched to fedora core 3. the learning part for switching to linux is very exciting. but i find one thing confusing. in fedora, when i want to install an application (rpm format), i have to install it from the shell using rpm command. is there an existing application in fedora which will allow me to install the rpm packages from the gui? also when i install applications in

There used to be a package called "gnorpm" to install rpms by double clicking the package. This used to be present in older distributions of redhat. now i can't find it bundled.

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnorpm/

Anurag