Re: New to FC


"Moe Trin" <ibuprofin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Tue, 05 Dec 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.redhat, in
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<kuidh.7481$yj1.4862@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Solution Builder wrote:

I am currently running FC4. My very basic question is this:
1. When you download a application, where is the "right" folder to
download it to?

Your use of the term 'folder' suggests you are also new to *nix. 'folder'
is a term that microsoft stole from Apple, who had stolen it from Xerox
GlobalView in the 1980s. In *nix (as in DOS) they are called
'directories'.
....

Consider my vocab changed. I called them folders because that is
the icon that my system show them as.
"When you download an application" from where? In what format? As you
appear to be new to this, you really should be sticking with packages
supplied by your distributor - in this case Red Hat. In virtually all
cases, these will be 'rpms' for use by your package manager.
I this case I was just trying to upgrade my Firefox to the latest
version, so that I could then put a tool on it for download management,
Downthemall.
In general,
it doesn't matter where you put them - the package manager (when run by
root) will put the binaries, documentation, and what-not in the "right"
place automatically.
Ah, yet another new term "package manager". My vocab is growing by
the line!! Ya I am a very new to Fedora person (a couple of decades on
WinTel and IBM midrange boxes, but new to Linux). So I am just now catching
up with what you all have been doing for 30 years or so. PBPWM!!

To see where this might be, run the command
'rpm -ql package_name' for binary packages already installed, or
'rpm -qpl /path/to/uninstalled/package_name-1.2.4-i386.rpm' for packages
not yet installed. Notice the difference between 'package_name' for
stuff that is installed, and the full path to the full name of the package
_file_ for stuff not yet installed.

OK, I will look those up.

2. When installing new applications, where is the "right" folder to
install
them to?

http://tldp.org/guides.html

* Linux Filesystem Hierarchy

Thanks I will get that an do some reading. I really do appreciate
it!
Greg


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