RPMs and Internet speed

[Rick Stevens]

Danesh Daroui wrote:
> Hi all,
>  
> I have a serious problem with mly recently installed Fedora Core 2. The 
> first problem is when I want to install a RPM package it asks me to 
> associate a program to run RPM package and ask me the path of program 
> which can open RPM packages. It is strange because why they didn't set 
> it up to recognize and open RPM packages automatically.

That's because the suffix ".rpm" is used by both RPMs as you know them
and as "Real Media Player" media files, used in Real Networks'
RealPlayer.  It's up to you to decide which you want it to be.  I'd
recommend you not set up a "default handler" for them if you browse any
Real Media sites.

>                                                          Anyway, what 
> should I do ? Where is the program which can open RPM packages.

The normal program to use is (oddly enough), "rpm", but it's a command
line (text) program.  Under Gnome, Nautilus is capable of opening and
examining the contents of an RPM, but it can't install it.  Only "rpm"
can install, update or delete an RPM.

>                                                                 Another 
> problem is that my internet conection speed in my Linux installed system 
> is too low. I don't know if firewall of Linux do something or not but it 
> is very low. Have you any idea to fix it ? By the way, do you have any 
> idea how can I have any indicator like windows system near the clock of 
> system which shows if data transmition is in process or not ? In windows 
> there is two small computer which show if you are sending or receiving 
> data from and to internet, is there something like that in Linux too ?

Oh, gawd, there's a thousand things that can be causing this.  The most
likely is that you don't have your default gateway or DNS server set up
correctly.

You don't say HOW you're connecting to the internet (dialup, cable
modem, DSL, whatever), nor do you say how things are structured (do you
use a separate router/firewall, for example).  Without this information,
we really can't help too much.

As to monitors, there's several.  You can run gkrellm under Gnome or KDE
which is a general system monitor (will show you CPU usage, network I/O,
disk I/O, etc.).  There's also the "system monitor", and if you use a
modem (dialup or DSL), there's a modem lights monitor and a wireless
network monitor that can be docked to the menu bar (right click on the
menu bar and go to the "Internet" option).
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