Linux Help?
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010 at
00:26
I don’t know which one to download.
It gives me 3 choices these are the choices
.tar.gz
.rpm
YUM
all of these are for linux but i don’t know which one i need and if you know i don’t know how to download it PLEASE HELP ME!
Tagged with: choices • Linux • rpm • tar gz • yum
Filed under: rpm
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Which you go for depends on which distribution of Linux you have.
Generally, if you can, you should use the built in package management system of the distro instead of downloading directly from the source website.
if you are running a ubuntu based distro you are doing things the hard way most stuff in ubuntu can be done form the repos if you arent running some ubuntu then god help ya and unless you are very good with computers you can forget tars for sure so rpm or yum are your only real choices outside ubuntu
That entirely depends on what flavor of Linux you are using(Ubuntu, suse, Mandriva…??). Most probably its Ubuntu.
Best is not to download from websites, just use the inbuilt package manager.
a .tar.gz file will often contain the source, so you will need to configure and compile it.
a .rpm is a binary package which can be loaded into a package manager to be installed (only works with rpm based distributions, like fedora, redhat and maybe some others)
from command line, you can use: ‘rpm -iv packagename.rpm’ to install — you must be root to do this.