On Sunday 16 January 2005 09:50 pm, Michael wrote:
> Click on the file Firefox-Installer, it will install firefox.
> As far as rpm's go, once you download the rpm that you need, you will
> open the Mandrake version of Install/Remove software and direct the
> program to your file. I have not used Mandrake in years but I thought it
> was called HardDrake
its called rpmdrake.
you can get to a lot of things as root, by typing mcc (for mandrake control
center). mcc will call rpmdrake to do "package management".
for downloaded rpm's it is just as easy to do it with the cmd line (as root).
rpm -i somepackage.rpm
as for having java in your PATH, PATH is an environment variable, which has a
list of paths separated by colon's.
to put it into your system path, you can put any path segments into your
system profile, which will get set as your system boots up, making it
available for everyone when logging in. this file is located in /etc and is
called profile
so:
1) get into a terminal
2) su to root
3) use your favorite editor to edit /etc/profile
4) down at the bottom of the file, just before the line that does the "unset
i" put your path lines in there
for instance, I installed firefox in /usr/local and the java j2re 1.3.1
in /usr/local, so my path lines look like this:
PATH=/usr/local/firefox-installer:$PATH
PATH=/usr/local/j2re1.3.1/bin:$PATH
export PATH
You need to do something similar in your /etc/profile.
The next time you boot up, everything is in your path. And yes it will work in
konqueror.
Jerry
>
> D - wrote:
> >Thanks for telling me about RPMfind. However I don't
> >really understand what RPM is or where I can get it or
> >how to install it. If you could explain that it would
> >be great.
> >So anyways I tried installing java once again and for
> >some reason it extracted all of the files, so that's
> >done. However I read that it works on Mozilla and I
> >am running Konqueror. I dled Mozilla but can't figure
> >how to install it and there is no readme. It's in the
> >form of tar.gz. In there there's a file called
> >Firefox installer but I don't know what to do with it.
> >Also, I'm trying to run a clone of the game
> >Colonization. It says I have to use java and that it
> >has to be in my PATH, I have no idea what that means
> >or how to do it.
> >I know this is lengthy but any help you can give is
> >appreciated.
> >
> >rob0t163
> >
> >--- Richard Whitney <rw@xend.net> wrote:
> >>Quoting D - <rob0t163@yahoo.com>:
> >>>Hola,
> >>>I'm trying to install java on my system and can't
> >>
> >>get
> >>
> >>>it to work. The solution may be something really
> >>>easy: I read on the java site that you must be
> >>
> >>running
> >>
> >>>Red Hat, TurboLinux or SLEC. I also read that
> >>>Mandrake is based on Red Hat, so will this work
> >>
> >>for
> >>
> >>>me?
> >>>
> >>>What I did was download the file, change it's
> >>>permission and then run it. It came up with a
> >>
> >>legal
> >>
> >>>agreement which I said yes to, but then it didn't
> >>>extract any files. Did I miss something or will
> >>
> >>it
> >>
> >>>just not work for Mandrake?
> >>>
> >>>Thanks,
> >>>rob0t163
> >>
> >>Do you know about http://rpmfind.net
> >>
> >>You can find a lot of packages for specific Redhat
> >>based distros
> >>
> >>R. Whitney
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