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Old 24th Oct 2008, 06:14
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Default Installing RPMs on red hat 7.2

can someone come up with an idiot's guide for me to install an rpm such as opera.

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Old 24th Oct 2008, 13:39
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Default Installing RPMs on red hat 7.2

you mean something that doesnt have a linux installer or something?? use wine then
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Old 25th Oct 2008, 03:19
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Default Installing RPMs on red hat 7.2

he asked how to install rpm's not wine apps.
download the rpm from the internet/ operas site and select open with your package installer
or go to terminal and type
sudo yum install opera
and if that doesnt work
su
yum install opera
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Old 25th Oct 2008, 04:50
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Default Installing RPMs on red hat 7.2

If you've downloaded the RPM, just double click it...
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Old 26th Oct 2008, 00:18
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Default Installing RPMs on red hat 7.2

Quote:
Originally Posted by MJM View Post
If you've downloaded the RPM, just double click it...
Nautilus has no installed viewer capable of displaying (name of program)

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Originally Posted by Cew27 View Post
he asked how to install rpm's not wine apps.
download the rpm from the internet/ operas site and select open with your package installer
or go to terminal and type
sudo yum install opera
and if that doesnt work
su
yum install opera
I just now tried it
[root@localhost root]# sudo yum install opera
sudo: yum: command not found
[root@localhost root]#

I tryed the other and got simalur results
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Old 26th Oct 2008, 03:37
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Default Installing RPMs on red hat 7.2

sorry yum is for fedora, redhats little brother
try
while in the dir that containst the package
sudo rpm -Uvh <name of package>
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