How to install Linux applications?

From: James Xiaolu Jin (jamesxjin_at_rogers.com)
Date: 04/22/05 

Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 09:06:53 -0400

I am new to Linux so please be gentile;-). Recently installed Redhat Linux 9
on a relatively old laptop computer (Toshiba Satellite 2100CDT). The
installation completed without any big problems. But now I have two
"annoying" problems.

1. Network configuration:

Couldn't find any driver for a Linksys external USB-type wireless network
adapter WUSB54G/80211.g so I gave up on this USB adapter. But then couldn't
even get my 3COM 3C589D PCMCIA 2.0/2.1 network card to work either which is
directly connected to one of the wired ports of my Linksys WRT54G router
which is in turn connected to my cable modem.

2. Now this one is really my problem. Without connection to the Internet
from the linux laptop because of the above network configureation problem, I
used a desktop running Windoze XP Pro to download some of the latest verions
of applications for Linux i386 such as Firefox 1.0.3, and OpenOfficeORG 2.0,
etc. but I am not sure how I can install these applications with Linux. Here
are what I did (using Firefox 1.0.3 as an example):

A) With the desktop PC running Windoze XP, downloaded
firefox-1.0.3.installer.tar.gz
B) With the destkop PC running Windoze XP, ran WINZIP to extract the above
downloaded tar.gz file, and got: the following extracted files
* config.ini
* firefox-installer
* firefox-installer-bin
* install.ini
* license.txt
* watermark.png
* subdirectory xpi which includes 6 files with file extension .xpi
C) With the desktop PC running Windoze XP, burned the above files onto a
CD-R (with the same file and directory structure)
D) With the laptop running Redhat Linux 9, from command line (terminal) and
using the CD-R media, tried 'executing' the above file firefox-installer or
firefox-installer-bin (a script or a executable?), but couldn't install the
application, at all.

What went wrong with my download and/or installation process/procedure?
Thanks!

James

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