[fedora-electronic-lab] How to search archives?

[Robert Peruzzi]

How do I search archives for solutions to my common problem before posting it?  The one list of dated archives I found had no convenient way to search all of them.
Just in case somebody is kind enough to re-answer my original common problem, here it is:

I have tried several ways to install Fedora Electronic Lab (FEL), all of them unsuccessfully, and am seeking a procedure or recipe to do so:

* About a year ago I installed Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) onto an external disk drive, hoping to find something like FEL.  Last Autumn an email arrived, announcing FEL. I was busy on a contract and didn't get to try it until this month.

* I downloaded FEL into my RHEL environment and got a desktop icon with a "?" and can't figure out how to execute it.

* My expertise is in circuit design, and obviously not in operating systems.  I only know UNIX and Linux well enough to get to the CAD tools and do file editing/managing and c-programming, perl etc.  So a lot of the acronyms and terminology I see in the documentation and discussions go right over my head. 

Thanks very much for your patient help.

Cheers,
Bob P.