New to Linux

balbert908 · Feb 2, 2002

Hey guys,

I Installed Linux Mandrake 8.1 yesterday. I have a phoneline network and I connect by cable modem through my other machine. I have yet to be able to connect to the internet. I can however ping both machines. In Linux from the terminal. I know this isn't the place for this question but figured it was a good place to start since I always get good answers in this forum. Can anyone recomend a good forum for a new Linux user? Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

David · Feb 3, 2002

Try www.linuxnewbie.org - great site. I'm not so good at linux networking issues, but my site includes some linux articles (can't plug it here tho - forum rules)

balbert908 · Feb 3, 2002

Awesome! Thanks! Found exactly what I needed at Linuxnewbie. I'm writing this message using Linux. It took 2 seconds. I just dowloaded a proxy program to my windows pc and configured the browser in Linux. Now I'm ready to explore!

David · Feb 3, 2002

balbert908 said:
Awesome! Thanks! Found exactly what I needed at Linuxnewbie. I'm writing this message using Linux. It took 2 seconds. I just dowloaded a proxy program to my windows pc and configured the browser in Linux. Now I'm ready to explore!

COngrats!
If I didn't I have a winmodem I'd be surfing in linux right now!

balbert908 · Feb 3, 2002

PenguinFreak said:
COngrats!
If I didn't I have a winmodem I'd be surfing in linux right now!

Now if only I can figure out hot to install a darn program! I keep reading instructions on differnet sites but I must be missing something. If I have downloaded the program file "imici-current.linux.x86.tar.gz" to my desktop, how do I now install it?

David · Feb 4, 2002

Open a text console and go to the directory where it is stored.
Do the following:

tar zxvf <myfile>.tar.gz
cd to the dir that will be made
./configure
make
make install

balbert908 · Feb 4, 2002

PenguinFreak said:
Open a text console and go to the directory where it is stored.
Do the following:

tar zxvf <myfile>.tar.gz
cd to the dir that will be made
./configure
make
make install

Ok now I'm pulling my hair out. (wait, I don't have any hair) lol. I did what you said. I downloaded mozilla it extracted fine and created the mozilla directory which I was able to cd to. When I try to run th ./configure command I get "no such file or directory". What gives? Thanks for your help. I would have given up a while ago if it wasn't for you. =)

XWRed1 · Feb 5, 2002

Oh, mozilla.

If you go into the directory thats created after you extract the tar.gz, there's a mozilla executable in there. Just run it.

balbert908 · Feb 5, 2002

XWRed1 said:
Oh, mozilla.

If you go into the directory thats created after you extract the tar.gz, there's a mozilla executable in there. Just run it.

Dp you know what the file extention is? I looked for something like that and clicked on a bunch of files but no dice.

XWRed1 · Feb 5, 2002

There is no extension. Its just called "mozilla". If you check the file permissions on it, you'll see its marked as executable.

balbert908 · Feb 5, 2002

Thanks. I'll try. =)

David · Feb 5, 2002

To run an executable just do ./<myfile>

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