Hey, I just got linux, and I have a few questions.. Ok, I'm interested in playing Counter-Strike Condition Zero on Linux. I have heard of Wine and WineX. I need to know which is better, which is free (Cause' I'm cheap like that.), and exactly how to install and use it. My PC won't open .rpm files or .exe files. So any help or tips or anything would be appreciated!

-Thank You.

How do I open n rpm file??? I double click on it and it says open with..

Before anything: welcome to linux!

Now, for us to be able to help you, you'll ned to supply some information about your system. What distro do you use (put it in your user info!), what Desktop Environment (necessary for answering this post)

Of course you do not need the gui for installing rpm's. Simply open a trminal, become root (by typing su - and provide the password. Then type rpm -ivh /path/to/appname.rpm you'll see a progession bar of sorts indicatin how install is going.

Exe files do not work in linux, they are windows software. Having said that, there are ways to get some window apps to work with linux, using wine (or cedega)

ok i dont understand what im supposed to type in on the terminal...tell me exactly what I need to type in. The RPM file is on my desktop, and its exact name is wine-0.9.2-SuSELinux100.i586.rpm

tell me exactly what i type in cause i dont know what path means on that command you told me! thanks

Ok, I have an RPM File named wine-0.9.2-SuSELinux100.i586.rpm
I need a step by step tutorial from that.
The RPM File is located on my desktop.
I need the exact instructions on how to do this, just like if you were doing it yourself.

open a terminal and become root by typing:

su -

use the change directory command (cd) to go to your desktop:

cd /home/<username>/Desktop

(insert your username!)
now install the rpm:

rpm -ivh wine-0.9.2-SuSELinux100.i586.rpm

wine is now installed. However it's not yet operational. You'll either need to do some configuring by hand or get winetools to do it for you. Have a look at its website: http://www.von-thadden.de/Joachim/WineTools/

a winetools rpm for suse is available here

Hmm...I did that and an error comes up..
it reads:

error: failed dependencies:

libXxf86dga.so.1 is needed by wine0.9.2-0.1
liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by wine0.9.2-0.1
libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by wine0.9.2-0.1
libstdc++.so.6 is needed by wine0.9.2-0.1

right: that means that in order to get wine to work you need another package installed. Until you have it wine won't work. Dependencies can be real headaches. That's why mist distros use some sort of install tool to make it all work. Suse has yast, which once properly configured (servers set up) will install the app you require + all its dependencies. If you don't want to / can't use such a tool use a service like rpmfind to figure out which app(s) provide the missing dependencies.

ok im on rpmfind's site. what exactly am i looking for?

Try typing in one of the dependencies and see whih package has it/them:

http://search.rpmseek.com/search.html has a speific link for dependecies/libraries that you are looking for.

liblber-2.2.so.7 and libldap-2.2.so.7 are available in the openldap package
libstdc++.so.6 is part of gcc340
libXxf86dga.so.1 can be found in a number of packages including the xorg-x11-libs or XFree86-libs.

You could of coure download all of these, but you are liable to run into a new problem: dependencies for the dependencies. That's why it is a much better idea to configure yast to do this for you. That way the whole dependency nightmare should be solved in one click. One of the reasons I don't particularly like Suse myself is that many of the 'standard' devlopment libraries and tools are not available from the cd/dvd. I had one heck of a time getting make installed because i didn't have internet on the box I tried to install suse on and the dependency stuff simply dorve me crazy.