Installing Downloaded software

[Michael Miles]

On 04/11/2010 03:34 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-04-11 at 15:21 -0700, Michael Miles wrote:
>    
>> On 04/11/2010 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
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Henry E Wyatt Jr
>>>        
>> both those files can be installed via add/remove software in the system tab
>>
>> if you must just download and open with archive manager when you see the
>> prompt
>> extract to a empty folder(create one)
>>
>> thats it
>>
>> gz is a compressed format for transmission reasons like zip,rar,arc etc...
>>      
> This is bad advice. Installing .gz files (or even random rpms) when
> there are perfectly good packages in the supported repos is just asking
> for trouble. The installed software will not be integrated with the
> package management system, so it will not be kept up to date, will
> eventually cause dependency problems, and will need to be reported
> upstream if any assistance is required.
>
> Use the built-in software management tools. For a novice user, the GUI
> versions (Install/Remove software) are probably best. Later on, get to
> know yum ("man yum" from the Shell).
>
> [Note that the latest Firefox in the stable repo is 3.5.9. My advice is
> to use it unless you know you need 3.6, because when 3.6 is released to
> the repo it will update cleanly.]
>
> poc
>
>    
thats kind of why I said to do it from add/remove software