How do you install 3rd party software in SUSE Linux 10.1?
Thursday, March 4th, 2010 at
14:50
I just installed SUSE Linux 10.1 and have been unable to figure out how to install 3rd party software such as Yahoo Messenger or Google Earth.
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Google earth comes as a binary (bin) file;
let’s say you saved http://dl.google.com/earth/GE4/GoogleEarthLinux.bin to /tmp
open a Konsole (command prompt)
myPC> cd /tmp
mpPC> chmod 766 /tmp/GoogleEarthLinux.bin
myPC> ./GoogleEarthLinux.bin
should get you started w/ the GoogleEarth one
Yahoo! msg.er comes as a RedHat Package Management archive; you can get it from http://download.yahoo.com/dl/unix/rh9.ymessenger-1.0.4-1.i386.rpm
http://messenger.yahoo.com/unix.php gives instructions, which translate to
again, from a Konsole…
myPC> cd /tmp
myPC> rpm -i rh9.ymessenger-1.0.4-1.i386.rpm
then, you need to go to the Menu button, Internet, Others and start the Yahoo! Messenger icon which is there
the install will then be continued in an interactive mode, which should get you online (defaults are fine).
most softwares will come as a RPM package as well and can be installed in a similar way, even though the
rpm -Uhv packagename.version.rpm
command should most of the time give you an installed & running SW.
if not, post another question for the specific package/SW
You need Linux versions of the programs, or use one of the Windows emulators. In the case of messengers, check out Gaim. It knows how to talk MSN, Yahoo, AIM, and several others.
Can’t help with Google earth unless they have a Linux version.