I was running redhat 7.3 on an old p2 350 as a file server... got a new system so I put my old 1.2 tbird as the file server, put the redhat OS drive in the 1.2 tbird and booted linux fine, kudzu ...
I have tried RPMs from Freshmeat. If I go into Nautilus and double click the file, which is how I normally install RPMs now, nothing happens. If I go to a terminal, su, and then run rpm -ivh ...
Checkinstall is a utility that builds a .deb, .rpm or Slackware package from a third party source code tarball. This allows you to introduce such third party software using the standard package ...