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Old July 24th, 2004 Top | #1
 
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Hi!

I have been running TurboLinux 6.3 for some time now and just downloaded some RPMs. In GNOME, I right-click and select "Install RPM" It waits a second, and then dies absolutely nothing :confused: ! Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!!!

(By the way, I am kinda a novice!)
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and by the way... i'm kinda stuck with installing Tarball files
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Old July 25th, 2004 Top | #3
 
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try using the command line. maybe you are missing some dependencies.

type: rpm -Uvh *package.rpm*

the second arguement '-Uvh' are options. type rpm --help or sumthin to see more options
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Old July 26th, 2004 Top | #4

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in console try
man tar

but as a short list
extracting gzip'd tarballs (tar.gz|tgz)
tar zxf tarball.tar.gz
extracting bzip'd tarballs (tar.bz2|tbz)
tar xjf tarball.tar.bz

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and tarballs can be anything, it is just an archiving tool, they can be source, binary installer, etc.
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