I have installed RH9 on a box at home and I am really new to this OS. I was wondering if anyone can help me with installing a package manager. I am not really sure what I am doing. Once I figure out how to install this I should be able to continue with installing other applications.
Any help would be nice.
Oh and I was wondering how do I change GUI desktops from GNOME to KDE?
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Jump to PostProgram installation methods differ depending on the type of program you are trying to install. Redhat uses the RPM utility to manage .rpm programs, but if you have a .tar, tar.gz, .tgz, or similar install file, the steps for installing are entirely different.
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Welcome to RedHat! I hope you enjoy the switch.
Generally, to install a package, you have to be logged in as root (you are not using the root account for everything, are you? If you are, bad move, and ask how to make a normal user!)
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Ok. You are trying to compile the program, and not using a package (rpm). What was the error message? Were you lacking some needed libraries? Perhaps you don't have the compilers installed.
Let us know,
Christian
Jump to Postchecking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl... noThose errors indicate that you don't have a compiler installed, which you will definitely need when installing a program from source code. You probably also don't have the necessary kernel source/kernel header packages installed …
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Yup. Compiler problem. WIth that in mind, you might wish to re-install linux, to avoid a lot of dependancy issues. If you have data already on the computer, this might not be the best option.... but if you are just starting out, you might want to go and …
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