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RPM Distribution
Apps are distributed in two forms for Linux. One is in the form of *.rpm & the other with the extension *.tar.gz. RPM files are the easiest to install. Some common RPM commands are given:
| #rpm -ivh app-name.rpm | Fresh install |
| #rpm -ivh --force app-name.rpm | Force install over previous install |
| #rpm -Uvh app-name.rpm | Upgrade from a previous version |
| #rpm -e app-name | Uninstall a program |
If you find these commands tedious to learn, just launch the Gnome RPM app to install, update or uninstall a app. You can launch this by:
#gnorpm
Compressed Source-code Distribution
The other form of distribution is the TAR ball. Follow these steps to install from *.tar.gz distribution:
- Most file managers (read this as Gnome & KDE file managers) have inbuilt option to extract from such files. Extract to a temporary folder. Or if you did like to manually extract, copy the compressed tarball to a temprory folder. Then issue the command:
#tar -zxvf tarballname.tar.gz
This would have created a folder, possibly of name tarballname in your temporary folder.
- Go to that folder.
- There should be some text file named 'install', if not there will be some other text file like 'readme' etc. Read the installation information given there & proceed!
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