Free web hosts - Installing New SoftwareIn many cases, installing new software
Installing New SoftwareIn many cases, installing new software isn t much harder than updating; itjust depends on the distribution and what tools have been incorporated forthis process. My focus in this section is on using these tools. Later, in the sec- tion Finding More New Software I address how to add programs that aren tincluded in these tools. Within each distribution s section, I also tell you howto add many of the programs discussed throughout this book. Again, Knoppix isn t included here, since you can t permanently install newsoftware onto a CD! Eating it up with Fedora s yumFedora doesn t offer a graphical software installation program, but you candownload a very cool one from the FedoraNEWS site called GYUM. To down- load and install this program: 1.Point your Web browser to www.fedoranews.org/tchung/gyum/. 2.Look through the page for a link to this software for FC3 (FedoraCore 3). 3.Click through the link. You see something similar to: Parent Directory - gyum-1.0-1.fc2.noarch.rpm 30-Jul-2004 14:49 25K gyum-1.0-1.fc2.src.rpm 30-Jul-2004 14:49 23K gyum-1.0.tar.gz 30-Jul-2004 14:49 20K gyum.spec 30-Jul-2004 14:49 2.8K 4.Download the file with the word noarch in it. 5.Double-click your home directory icon on your desktop. 6.Double-click the Desktop icon and then the Downloads icon. 7.Double-click the RPM to install it.After you have this handy programinstalled, you can add some software sources and then discover how touse Gyum! If, for whatever reason, you prefer to add software from the command linerather than through gyum (maybe you just don t like the program), you canuse the yum command directly in text. See the www.fedoranews.orgsite forhelpful articles and tutorials to get you through this process. Adding yum repositoriesYum uses what s called repositories (sites that offer software in a way thatyum can understand) in order to track what s available and grab what itneeds. By default, only the main Fedora repository is available for many 247Chapter 12: Adding Software to Linux18_