Installing Downloaded software

[Suvayu Ali]

Hi Henry,

Fedora has excellent documentation. Since you are new you should go 
through this once.

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/user-guide/f12/en-US/html/

On Sunday 11 April 2010 03:11 PM, Henry Wyatt wrote:
> Need to know basics of how o install downloaded programs ie,  Mozilla
> Firefox 3.6 and Open Office, both files end in .gz
>

To answer your question, try
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/user-guide/f12/en-US/html/chap-User_Guide-Managing_software.html

As a general principle it is always preferable to install software 
available in the distribution's repositories.

e.g. on Fedora you would use PackageKit/yum, on Ubuntu you would use 
synaptic/apt-get/aptitude and so on ...

GL.

-- 
Suvayu

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