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I'm using Red Hat 9 and i've d/l some rpms. The latest one was tvtime. I dbl clicked it and a screen flashes up for a sec, then nothing. Am I doing something wrong in terms of installing things on Linux? Was there something I should do first? RPM's are the equivalent of .exe 's right?
well lets take a different approach to see whats happening ....
open up a terminal and su - to root ...
navigate to the folder where the rpm is located and type : rpm -ivh nameofpackage.rpm
and post back the output (that is if it errors) ...
Take alook at the bottom of this thread:-http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=147041&highlight=installations
ITs about installing and configuring apt4rpm
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