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ricanelite
20th April 2006, 02:13 PM
Hey whats up, i got a question for anyone that is willing to help out. I just finally got everything running great now, im hoping but I need some help with understanding Linux and making it work. Like installing software and understanding a brief idea of the terminal. So if some will like to help out please e-mail me my email address is evazquez757@cox.net. Cause I really wanna know how to work this, like i know how to work with OS X and Windows. Please someone help. If you know any websites where you got great information please let me know. Thanks for taking your time in reading this. Talk to all of you later..Have a good day :D

cbonner
20th April 2006, 03:05 PM
Installing software...

Fedora uses RPM's for installing and manageing software. An RPM file contains the software to be installed and the information where to install it along with any dependcies (other software that needs to be installed), think of it a bit like an OS X .dpkg file.
There is a local database of RPM's installed on your system.

When installing an RPM package in Fedora, it uses yum to check for dependencies and installs them if requiered.

You can also use Fedora's Add/Remove Software from the menu. This will check online repositories of software, and allow you to search and install software.

Terminal/Bash Shell...

Here's a beginners guide to the bash shell:

http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/

ricanelite
21st April 2006, 12:14 PM

well the reason why im asking is cause I have a account open in LimeWire and I cannot be able to open it up or even install it on my Linux machine? Let me know if you know anything about that? Please help me out.

Jman
21st April 2006, 10:07 PM
There's a couple LimeWire how tos our How Tos forum.