Installing Software
You will probably want to add further software to your Linux system from time to time. The most common forms of packaged software for Fedora and many other Linux distros are:
- *.rpm files
Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) files. These are installed and managed with the programs
rpm
(manually) andup2date
(automatically).- *.tar.gz files, *.tar.Z files, and *.tar.bz2 files
Compressed tar files. They are packaged with
tar
and compressed withgzip
(.gz),compress
(.Z), orbzip2
(.bz2).
Most new software must be installed by the superuser, so you’ll need to run the su
command (or equivalent) before installation. For example:
$ su -l
Password: ********
# rpm -ivh mypackage.rpm
...etc...
To locate new software, check your Linux CD-ROMs or visit fine sites like these:
http://freshmeat.net/ |
http://freshrpms.net/ |
http://rpmfind.net/ |
http://sourceforge.net/ |
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