On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 10:00:54AM -0500, Sean Winters wrote:
> First of all, let me say that even though I come from the NT world, I
> was able to install RH 5.0 and get it going on the network with minimum
> fuss. (A testament to the ease of installation, not my technical
> prowess.)
>
> I bought the RH Linux Installation Guide, and was loaned another newbie
> book, and have searched the man pages trying to figure out how to
> install programs. I downloaded Netscape from the net, but have yet to
> figure out how to install it. Obviously it is gzip'd, but when I attempt
> to run gzip -d [filename] a messages appears stating something about a
> core; this is presumably not a Good Thing.
>
> Is there any resource I can hit to get information on how to accomplish
> program compiles and installation???
If your objective is to just get netscape going go to the redhat ftp
site (or preferably a mirror close to you) and get the navigator or
communicator rpm. then do:
rpm -i package-file-name
Check the hurricane contrib or updates directory for the package.
If you really want to use the file you have you will have to provide
more details--the file name, the error message you got, etc
do a: file file-name
to see what kind of a file it is according to its internal secret code
(magic number).
paul
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