Try RH9, it's even more "simplified" than RH8! In any case, to the best of my knowledge, RPMs are packages, which means when you install them, they are extracted into all of the files they consist of, which are dispersed throughout the system (in appropriate locations).
Thanks for the info. Shrike did not run too good for me. I had problems with Wine and Lotus Notes. The Redhat Package Manger is for Red Hat Packages I think. I did not see any place where there are RPM's. Thanks Again.
Rather, it's a prior post here on TechTalk that illustrates all about how to use the rpm package management system; how to install, remove, and update packages, how to compile packages, etc etc etc
In that post you talk about mplayer. That is what I am having trouble installing. I have the command line version working, but I can't figure out the gui. I downloaded all of the rpms for the and installed them, but I can't find where they were installed, so I can't run the gui. I tried to re-install the rpms and it says that they are already installed. Whats up with that!
When I run the rpm -Uvh command it tells me that the rpms are already installed. If I run mplayer I have to supply all of the strings to play a file. I installed the mplayer gui version, is it not really a gui player. Thanks for all of the help, your great!
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