Comments on: How do you install 3rd party software in SUSE Linux 10.1? http://www.linuxcrypt.org/how-do-you-install-3rd-party-software-in-suse-linux-10-1.html Linux reviews applications open source from SUSE Mandrake Mandriva Centos Redhat Debian and more Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:37:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: mr. c http://www.linuxcrypt.org/how-do-you-install-3rd-party-software-in-suse-linux-10-1.html/comment-page-1#comment-4432 mr. c Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:50:05 +0000 http://www.linuxcrypt.org/how-do-you-install-3rd-party-software-in-suse-linux-10-1.html#comment-4432 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 ;) 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 ;)

]]> By: Ken H http://www.linuxcrypt.org/how-do-you-install-3rd-party-software-in-suse-linux-10-1.html/comment-page-1#comment-4433 Ken H Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:50:05 +0000 http://www.linuxcrypt.org/how-do-you-install-3rd-party-software-in-suse-linux-10-1.html#comment-4433 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. 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.

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