[Airtyon]

hi,
can anyone please show me the way how to install a simple application in linux red hat 5. im a beginner.
thank you

[RudiVisser]

RHEL ships with the up2date utility that will install packages from the internet for you, for example, you can run up2date -i vim to install VIM.

Also, the main package type for RHEL is an RPM, so you can install *.rpm files using rpm -ivh name.rpm.

Some RedHat derivatives, such as Fedora, come with the yum package manager instead of up2date. Same example as above, yum install vim will install VIM.

This post has been edited by RudiVisser: 02 August 2011 - 03:48 AM

[Milto]

I don't know much about red hat but certain Linux distros make it easy to install applications if you add their source to a repository list (used in Arch and Ubuntu). From there you can use simple install commands like RudiVisser mentioned.

[GWatt]

Red Hat systems normally (now) ship with yum. They want to phase out up2date.