Sponsored Content
Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How do I install things on Unix? Post 302144928 by blesets on Monday 12th of November 2007 01:54:36 AM
Old 11-12-2007
In Unix, there are many directory, like /usr, /etc ....
binary(command unix) always in bin, sbin ...
Linux have many pakage/aplication format, ex rpm, deb.
It's just about format, because linux have many distro, every distro ussually have different applicaton installer format, ex ubuntu using deb, even ubuntu can also using rpm installer to, but need alien. redhat and fedora using rpm.
tgz tar.gz it's same, maybe in windows just zip or rar. Ussually you must compile first before you can install.
You must extract that file, and read the direction inside, usually you should execute make, for compile, and make install to install.

Not always become root, if you install from source code, depend on the applications. But, if you install using rpm you must became root.
 

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Unix Install

Hi I'm a newbie here and, in Unix. I bought a book to learn the code. I have been in different websites to find information on how to install Red Hat Linux 7.2 on my system, but I may not understand what's going on. All I see on the sites is ftp sites for download but when you click on the links... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Millienc
1 Replies

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

The what and how to install UNIX on a new mac

Firstly, Happy New Year to all. Secondly, my earnest request... I am an absolute novice in UNIX. Have work around alittle with the mac os Terminal which encourage me to get myself a used G3 powerbook. I would like to work full fledge installing a unix shell onto it (without GUI). Could... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: pharme
4 Replies

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

can i install UNIX beside Windows XP???

Hi guys i'm new here .. and actually i wanna anyone answer my question it's simple the question is " can i setup or install UNIX beside windows XP?" i need answer plz thanks :) (11 Replies)
Discussion started by: M_Hafez
11 Replies

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

How to install Unix on my pc

Hi guys, I have used Unix while I was a student but want to install it on my pc. My question is How do I install UNIX on my pc which has Windows XP already installed and running? I have a bootable Unix 6.0 CD. thanks (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: asif iqbal
6 Replies

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

How to install Unix

Can anyone tell me how to install Unix. (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: hrach_gulzadyan
1 Replies

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

How do I install Unix?

Hi, Im completely new to Unix installations, but have done some unix work so some commands are not new to me. But I would like to start my own Unix FTP server, but I have no clue where to start. I have a computer that i soon format the HD on (Was Windows,Intel computer), so I want to use... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: helpMeGetStarte
3 Replies

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

UNIX Application install

Hi, I am currently installing an application (tar ball) on a server that involves ftp from my computer to the server directory (unix). Once it is deployed, I am now responsible to getting it to run. Using putty, i telnet/ssh to the remote node and type in the following command: vi .kshrc. I... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: huge_ness
5 Replies

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

5 Unix things you wish you knew as a beginner...

I am trying to get better at UNIX, and I wanted to post a question so I can take some advice from more experienced programmers. What are some things that you wished you knew (while you were learning UNIX) that you think every beginner should know? (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: statichazard
2 Replies

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

monitoring various things (mainly activity) on different unix boxes

Hi there, I want to ask you guys what you think about my problem. I work as a sysadmin on about 7000 workstations or so and to save money and energy, we've decided to switch off as many workstations as possible during the night (probably by shutting it down by cron and power it on by... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: albator1932
8 Replies

10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

How to install Unix??

Hi Experts, I am a new born trying to start learning UNIX so please be patient. I have downloaded Free BSD 9.0 Release i386 All recently.Upon extracting it I found four Disc Image File. FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-i386-bootonly FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-i386-disc1 FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: RishabhK
1 Replies
RPMSPEC(8)                                                    System Manager's Manual                                                   RPMSPEC(8)

NAME
rpmspec - RPM Spec Tool SYNOPSIS
QUERYING SPEC FILES: rpmspec {-q|--query} [select-options] [query-options] SPEC_FILE ... select-options [--rpms] [--srpms] query-options [--qf,--queryformat QUERYFMT] [--target TARGET_PLATFORM] QUERY OPTIONS The general form of an rpm spec query command is rpm {-q|--query} [select-options] [query-options] You may specify the format that the information should be printed in. To do this, you use the --qf|--queryformat QUERYFMT option, followed by the QUERYFMT format string. See rpm(8) for details. SELECT OPTIONS --rpms Operate on the binary package header(s). --srpm Operate on the source package header(s). SEE ALSO
popt(3), rpm(8), rpmdb(8), rpmkeys(8), rpmsign(8), rpm2cpio(8), rpmbuild(8), rpmspec --help - as rpm supports customizing the options via popt aliases it's impossible to guarantee that what's described in the manual matches what's available. http://www.rpm.org/ <URL:http://www.rpm.org/> AUTHORS
Marc Ewing <marc@redhat.com> Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com> Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com> Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com> Red Hat, Inc 29 October 2010 RPMSPEC(8)
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 04:40 AM.
Unix & Linux Forums Content Copyright 1993-2022. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy