How to install Linux applications?

Thanks, and I will try just that. I played with it running it off the CD,
and I like it. I did see the option to install the bootloader onto MBR but I
was afraid that it would wipe out Windows XP's bootup...


"JDS" <jeffrey@example.invalid> wrote in message
news:pan.2005.04.28.15.53.24.762719@example.invalid...[color=blue]
> On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 07:07:26 -0400, James Xiaolu Jin wrote:
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>> if I am happy with this MEPIS LiveCD, can I install it on a PC which
>> already
>> has Windoze XP Professional installed (such as adding a new hardrive and
>> then instaling this MEPIS Linux into the new hardrive, so that I could
>> dual-boot the PC into MEPIS or Windoze)?[/color]
>
>
> Yes, you can. choose the option to install the bootloader on MBR -- the
> Grub bootloader can then boot into either Windows or Linux.
>
> --
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>[/color]

I use a program called yum that is really great. Much easier using yum
because it grabs all of your dependencies automatically.
[color=blue]
>yum list available[/color]
[color=blue]
>yum update #####updates your entire system[/color]
[color=blue]
>yum install snes9express.i386 ####installs snes9express.i386 and deps[/color]


######## /etc/yum.conf ########################
[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest
distroverpkg=redhat-release
tolerant=1
exactarch=1

#[base]
#name=Red Hat Linux $releasever - $basearch - Base
#baseurl=http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/


#[updates]
#name=Red Hat Linux $releasever - Updates
#baseurl=http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/updates/$releasever/

[dag]
name=Dag RPM Repository for Fedora Core
baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/dag
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1


James Xiaolu Jin wrote:[color=blue]
> I am new to Linux so please be gentile;-). Recently installed Redhat Linux 9
> on a relatively old laptop computer (Toshiba Satellite 2100CDT). The
> installation completed without any big problems. But now I have two
> "annoying" problems.
>
> 1. Network configuration:
>
> Couldn't find any driver for a Linksys external USB-type wireless network
> adapter WUSB54G/80211.g so I gave up on this USB adapter. But then couldn't
> even get my 3COM 3C589D PCMCIA 2.0/2.1 network card to work either which is
> directly connected to one of the wired ports of my Linksys WRT54G router
> which is in turn connected to my cable modem.
>
> 2. Now this one is really my problem. Without connection to the Internet
> from the linux laptop because of the above network configureation problem, I
> used a desktop running Windoze XP Pro to download some of the latest verions
> of applications for Linux i386 such as Firefox 1.0.3, and OpenOfficeORG 2.0,
> etc. but I am not sure how I can install these applications with Linux. Here
> are what I did (using Firefox 1.0.3 as an example):
>
> A) With the desktop PC running Windoze XP, downloaded
> firefox-1.0.3.installer.tar.gz
> B) With the destkop PC running Windoze XP, ran WINZIP to extract the above
> downloaded tar.gz file, and got: the following extracted files
> * config.ini
> * firefox-installer
> * firefox-installer-bin
> * install.ini
> * license.txt
> * watermark.png
> * subdirectory xpi which includes 6 files with file extension .xpi
> C) With the desktop PC running Windoze XP, burned the above files onto a
> CD-R (with the same file and directory structure)
> D) With the laptop running Redhat Linux 9, from command line (terminal) and
> using the CD-R media, tried 'executing' the above file firefox-installer or
> firefox-installer-bin (a script or a executable?), but couldn't install the
> application, at all.
>
> What went wrong with my download and/or installation process/procedure?
> Thanks!
>
> James
>
>[/color]