Chris Posted April 19, 2004 Report Share Posted April 19, 2004 Challenge:2 Install a program - All questions reagarding the installation of a program try and keep in here. We will build a very informative topic that will allow other people to follow.Let's see what happens... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nellie2 Posted April 19, 2004 Report Share Posted April 19, 2004 could you recommend something to install that wouldn't be too taxing on the brain? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted April 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2004 Opera...http://www.opera.com/download/index.dml?platform=linuxChoose an RPM download for your distribution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expertec Posted April 19, 2004 Report Share Posted April 19, 2004 Already I have two browsers installed, how about shockwave and flash plugins? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted April 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2004 Already I have two browsers installed, how about shockwave and flash plugins?Easy [ish]...http://www.macromedia.com/downloads/Follow the instructions given. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilch Posted April 20, 2004 Report Share Posted April 20, 2004 I tried to install something called AMSN as gaim wouldnt work.Anyhow i installed it fine, now i cant seem to find where to open it from or un-install it! ARRGH!Anyone?Red Hat used... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expertec Posted April 20, 2004 Report Share Posted April 20, 2004 ok, i'll do opera, do i get the mandrake 9 version? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expertec Posted April 21, 2004 Report Share Posted April 21, 2004 Installing opera from the RPM version is as easy as installing things in windows :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted April 21, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2004 Installing opera from the RPM version is as easy as installing things in windows :)Exactly... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted April 21, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2004 I tried to install something called AMSN as gaim wouldnt work.Anyhow i installed it fine, now i cant seem to find where to open it from or un-install it! ARRGH!Anyone?Red Hat used...Redhat right?Click the hat...Run a Program...Type: AMSM...See if it works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expertec Posted April 21, 2004 Report Share Posted April 21, 2004 Installing opera from the RPM version is as easy as installing things in windows :)Exactly... but some Linux program installs are not so easy, you have to use a terminal/command line thing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilch Posted April 21, 2004 Report Share Posted April 21, 2004 powerless again....what a cleaver man! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted April 21, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2004 Installing opera from the RPM version is as easy as installing things in windows :)Exactly... but some Linux program installs are not so easy, you have to use a terminal/command line thing Try one.Lets see what we can do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expertec Posted April 22, 2004 Report Share Posted April 22, 2004 I installed the flash plugin for Mozilla using the command line, but one flash enabled site that I wanted to use told me I had to run Netscape 4.7 or 7.x, I'll try opera instead :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expertec Posted April 22, 2004 Report Share Posted April 22, 2004 I've installed it for Opera as well, using command line again :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expertec Posted April 23, 2004 Report Share Posted April 23, 2004 A program I was trying to install told me I had no java virtual machine insta;;ed so I'm going to download a Java from Sun, but which of these should I get?Linux Platform     RPM in self-extracting file (j2re-1_4_2_04-linux-i586-rpm.bin, 12.95 MB)     self-extracting file (j2re-1_4_2_04-linux-i586.bin, 13.52 MB) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted April 23, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 23, 2004 either? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expertec Posted April 23, 2004 Report Share Posted April 23, 2004 If anybody is planning to download it, just get the RPM version. :rolleyes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted April 26, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 26, 2004 Try it with Firefox...It's too easy as ive just found out! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expertec Posted April 26, 2004 Report Share Posted April 26, 2004 Try it with Firefox...It's too easy as ive just found out! :D??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted April 26, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 26, 2004 Try firefox the browser: http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted April 26, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 26, 2004 ps. Had a look at asmn :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Radfordin Posted April 29, 2004 Report Share Posted April 29, 2004 Well here we are...its been er...3 hours since I started the process and my Linux machine is now in a similar state to what was on it before. Have installed the flash plugin for Mozzila and got a beta version of Sawmill working which I'm impressed with :DThe CDRW challenge may have to be skipped...whats next ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expertec Posted April 29, 2004 Report Share Posted April 29, 2004 Hmm, just been looking at aMSN, think I'll try it out later B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Radfordin Posted April 29, 2004 Report Share Posted April 29, 2004 AMSN is the next on my list...have had it downloading updates for RedHat all afternoon though...used up loads of bandwith no doubt, but hey who cares :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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