noob questions

[Timothy Payne]

Books by O'Reilly & Associates are always good.  And make a note book. (
I always forget what I did )  People on the list will ask "what changes
did you make"  Ahaaa "I forgot?" :-)

Tim... ( still a newbie after all these years )

On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 07:54, Carroll Grigsby wrote:
> On Saturday 16 October 2004 07:53 pm, A A wrote:
> > hi all
> >
> > first of all i need to introduce myself a bit. not only am i a new user of
> > Fedora Core 2, i am a newly converted linux user. (i'm sure there have been
> > many windoze rants posted here so i won't add to them)
> 
> >>> snip
> 
> > how do i install downloadable .rpm files?
> > i was following some directions pretty good to get Xine (i managed to
> > download all the files) however when the directions mentioned that i must
> > be in root i got lost. also what location must the files be loaded to so i
> > may use the commands in the terminal?
> >
> > i got loads more questions but don't want to flood the list just yet :)
> 
> Chris:
> Welcome aboard. In addition to the other advice that you've gotten, you'll 
> find a lot of valuable information in the list archives at these sites:
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&r=1&w=2
> Both are well worth bookmarking. Try both.
> 
> Two other great Linux tools are man and info. You can learn more about them by 
> opening a terminal and entering man man or info info. (Really.) For example, 
> Fedora provides a program called yum to handle the messy details involved in 
> downloading and installing rpms; man yum will give you a brief rundown on the 
> proper usage of the command while info yum will provide more background 
> information.
> 
> -- cmg