Thread: Installing applications to customers

Something not found in the manual or fails to understand is how you install new applications in terminals from the server.

Is done automatically at all?
I do it from the server or client?

Thank you!

Hi,

Well, the best way to install software is to use apices packaged for distribution. In this case, and since EduLinux is based on Fedora Core 4, you should try to find the application in an RPM file. It is usually called something like aplicación1.0.4.i386.rpm, the final means that RPM is packaged for Fedora and is indeed EduLinux. In some cases referred to the i386 (or i686), which states that architecture is the family procesarores Intel 80386 ... generally all desktop and portable computers have this processor architecture. Of non-i386, or at least they were not, are Macintosh computers, is now well clear plates and use Intel processors.

Anyway, summing up (I was going around the bush), find your application in RPM, this, the server with root user, run it by double clicking on it.

If RPM does not exist, usually come in. The CG is because it is compressed, because ART is packaged. Then, what is usually done is the following. Suppose you have the application in the directory / home/usuario1 and is called aplicacion.tar.gz. Open the terminal and type:

# Cd / home/usuario1

Unzip the file:
# Tar xvfz aplicacion.tar.gz

Enter the new directory is created:
# Cd application

Configure the application with the command:
#. / Configure

Compile
# Make

Install
# Make install

And that's it, your application will be installed and all customers. However, in the directory that is created when you unpack a tar file, there is a file or README indicates that all steps for installation.

Greetings!

Ok!

I am a Mandriva user, so I know well the rpm.

What I meant is if you install the application like the links are made on the clients...

Thank you!