need some help abt app installation

[Jay D]

Thanks for the note Chris.  Dany, I agree with Chris that rpms are easier to 
install and less likely to have problems during installation.  I assumed 
that this media player you were trying to install was only available as 
"tarballs" (.tgz or tar.gz files) since you said you'd downloaded a tarball 
to install from.  But if you can find rpm files to install from, that is 
often better and easier, as Christ noted.  I couldn't find rpm's at the 
snackamp website, but I did find some at the following link.

http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/dag/packages/snackamp/


----Original Message Follows----
From: Chris Hewitt <g0pae at manordat.demon.co.uk>
Reply-To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com
To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: need some help abt app installation
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 14:59:07 +0000

Jay D wrote:

>See 
>http://www.loscompanion.com/howtos/installing_tarballs/installing_tarballs.html 
>and also
>http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/answers.php?action=viewarticle&artid=15
>
>
>Read through the links.  By the way, I'm new to linux also.  But to find 
>the first link I just did a google.com search for: "how to install 
>applications" AND .gz AND linux
>
>Try googling yourself and you'll get lots of information that will help 
>you.  Google is your friend.  ".exe" files are windows only.  If you Linux 
>inxtallations often result in being able to run the program by typing its 
>name at the command prompt (ie "netscape").  When you "unpack" the tarballs 
>(see the above link) they're will be README files with specific 
>instructions.
>
>cheers,
>
>jay

Jay,

Yes, correct, but I would urge some caution with tarballs (.tgz or tar.gz) 
files (whether source or binary). There are many flavours of unix besides 
the different flavours of linux and a tarball may need considerable 
configuring for the particular linux you have. Using a binary rpm for the 
particular distribution is much less risky, particularly for those new to 
linux. Also, using a rpm means that it will be noted in the rpm database 
thus it can be uninstalled. Tarballs will not go into that database and thus 
cannot be removed from the System Settings -> Add/Remove Applications menu 
item.

I'm not suggesting that tarballs should not be used, just that a rpm for the 
particular distribution is going to be easier and safer.

Regards

Chris


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