Need help with Linux

[Big Booger]

This is a good question. I had so much trouble installing software when I first used Linux.

There are actually many ways to install software with Linux. The main ones are URPMI, RPM, and compile from source using the command line (if using red hat try APT for easy software installing and updating).

I will also say this efc, when you first install Mandrake, I highly recommend you to install ALL developmental packages. I just check every single box. The reason being is that most software will require at some point a developmental package. If they are already installed, then your trouble factor goes down.

URPMI is the program you need for Mandrake 10.

http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi/index.php

That site will give you all the info you need for installing URPMI.

http://www.linux-mandrake.com/cooker/urpmi.html

And another site with more info above.


Now on to your specific F-prot AV installation. I haven't installed this yet, but as soon as I get home I will give it a go.

F-Prot Antivirus tarballs now come with an installation script called install-f-prot.pl. It can be found in the directory created when extracting the tarballs. If you choose to use this script, you can skip the next step titled "Installing manually." To run the script, change to the f-prot/ directory and execute it:

tar xvfz /path/to/fp-linux-ws-VERSION.tar.gz
cd f-prot/
./install-f-prot.pl

That would be your best bet. I usually SU to root when installing software. It tends to reduce troubles. (root, as you might know is your administrator account).

to SU to root, open a command prompt, and at the prompt type:

su root

then type your root password.

Now that you are in root, you can install the software. Fprot has it's own installation script. So you needn't worry where to download it. I just create a folder on the desktop called Downloads, and put all my downloaded software in that folder.

Now use this:

tar xvfz /path/to/fp-linux-ws-VERSION.tar.gz
cd f-prot/
./install-f-prot.pl

Tar basically is like a decompressing command. It will decompress the compressed .tar.gz file.

Now if you downloaded the files to your desktop, you can type
tar xvfz /path/to/fp-linux-ws-VERSION.tar.gz

In the command prompt (make sure you are root and not your regular account name)

Where /path/to/....tar.gz is the path to the desktop download folder. I don't know the path offhand as I am at work. When I go home I can update this thread.

The path would be like /home/USERNAME//Desktop/downloads/

If you downloaded fprot to the desktop downloads folder

Then CD to the f-prot folder.

type:
cd f-prot/

then type:
./install-f-prot.pl

Now if all goes well, the F-prot installation should begin.

F-Prot Antivirus has all of its files in one directory called f-prot/. For the deb and rpm packages, that directory will be installed under /usr/local/. We recommend users of the tarball to do the same. An installation script included with the tarball should also install the directory to /usr/local/.

http://www.f-prot.com/support/helpfi...loc_files.html

Now on to verification of installed F-prot:

To verify the commandline scanner works, please run it with the -verno option and then attempt to scan a file:

f-prot -verno
f-prot /etc/passwd

If that works, you're all set.