I Really can't install anything

**jdrusmtik9** · 11-10-2005

I really can't install anything and I know there are stickies on this, but they arn't helping. For Instance I have OOO or OpenOffice.org, and I got the packages and well okay there are like 15 of them. What amd I supposed to do with all these RPMs?

I also have the DEB of Audacity, an so I extracted it and got some td.bz files and so I extracted those and then I got some random looking folders and a bunch of files. I've tried opening every single one of them and got nothing.

I think that program installation is the largest gap between Linux and Windows Usability.

**lakerdonald** · 11-10-2005

Code:

man rpm

**AlexK** · 11-10-2005

@ jdrusmtik9,
Have you ever tried reading the installation instructions for OOo?

And I am curious, how did you extract a *.deb file even though your profile says you are using SUSE? Again, you might want to try downloading an rpm of audacity in order to install it, *.deb is for Debian based systems and SUSE is not based on Debian.

**dylunio** · 11-10-2005

Tutorial on how to install things in linux should help you a bit with what to do with RPMs etc.

**jdrusmtik9** · 11-10-2005

Okay well for instance, I did Extract here for the FireFox 1.5 RC1 that I just downloaded it was in a tgz file. and then I got the folder and I opened it up; and heres whats inside, what do I do with this.

Sorry for the SuSE confusion im now on Debian.

**dylunio** · 11-10-2005

Open up a termainal, and use the cd command to go to the firefox directory e.g.

Code:

cd /home/john/firefox

here you should be able to exacute the binary file to install with

Code:

./firefox-bin

-- note you may have to do this as root by

Code:

su 
&#91;rootpass&#93;

before you execute the firefox-bin file.

**jdrusmtik9** · 11-10-2005

I got an error.

Code:

error while loading shared libaries&#58; Libxpcon_core.so  cannot open shared object file&#58;  No such file or directory

any ideas?

**antidrugue** · 11-10-2005

Installing software on Debian?

Myself I use Debian, and it works flawlessly.

I believe there is a tool called "Synaptics", that works great.

Myself I use tools like "apt-get", "apt-cache" and "dpkg", just do

Code:

man apt-get

and

Code:

man apt-cache

etc. for any help.

Why use Firefox? My opinion is that Mozilla works better in Debian:

Code:

apt-get install mozilla-browser mozilla-psm

I just downloaded Fireforx 1.5 RC1, to try it out as well. Works great!
Try this...

To extract:

Code:

tar zxvf firefox-1.5rc1.tar.gz

Then

Code:

cd firefox

To run

Code:

./firefox

To "install" it, just copy the directory where you want...

Works for me...

If it doesn't, we'll try something else.

**jdrusmtik9** · 11-10-2005

works great. So how would I go about getting a link under the applications "start" menu thing under the internet tab?

and what directory would I copy it to to "install" it

P.S. thanks a lot it works now but I don't have any convience factor but I can run it from terminal

**antidrugue** · 11-10-2005

Ok, cool.

Myself I don't use Gnome (I prefer KDE), though I think Gnome is just as good.

To "install", well, copy in the directory where you wish to. (like /home/[yourself]/firefox)

Just create a shortcut to it, to use it "conveniently". It think you can create a new item in a menu in Gnome. (Install it where you want BEFORE creating the shortcut

)

Browse in menu, and right click on the "internet" sub-menu and just add the shortcut. (not sure about this one)

Other than that, the simple way is just to right click on the top panel, and then choose "add an item" (something like that). Then, from the list, you add a shortcut (the first or second item from the top).

Sorry, I cannot really help you more with Gnome, but check out Gnome help.

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