Command line questions

[Michael Scottaline]

On Tue, 01 Jul 2003 12:06:07 -0700
Tom Lombardo <tlombardo at caserdoo.com> insightfully noted:

>
>You're awesome, Mike - thank you very much!
====================================
You're most welcome, Tom.  Stick around on this list.  Some of the most
knowledgable linux folks *anywhere* are on this list as regular contributors.
Oh......., and I'm NOT one of them ;o)  The *really* knowledgable folks chime
in on the really tough questions.  Take my word for it, you'll like it here
and will learn MUCHO!!!
Best,
Mike
>
>Michael Scottaline wrote:
>> On Tue, 01 Jul 2003 01:22:02 -0700
>> Tom Lombardo <tlombardo at caserdoo.com> insightfully noted:
>> 
>> 
>>>I'm starting to get a handle on using the command line, but the book I 
>>>have fails to answer a few questions:
>>>
>>>1.  How can you open a program like OpenOffice from the command line?
>> 
>> ==========================
>> Depending on the "path" you might have to type the full path to the
>executable> command:  ~/OpenOffice.org/ooffice (or something like that,
>depending on the> version.
>> =======================
>> 
>>>2.  using just the command line, how do you install a program from the 
>>>.tar or .gz file you get from the download?
>> 
>> ================================
>> tar zxvf downloaded.program.tar.gz
>> 
>> now cd to the newly created directory
>> 
>> ./configure
>> make
>> su
>> [password for root]
>> 
>> make install
>> =============================
>> 
>>>3.  How do you uninstall a program? (I need to wipe my copy of 
>>>RealPlayer clean and re-install it.)
>> 
>> ==========================
>> depends on how it was installed.  RPM????  From source??????
>> =========================
>> 
>>>4.  When you get good at using the command line, do you get to the point 
>>>where you don't even use the GUI (I have RedHat v8)?
>> 
>> ============================
>> My window manager of choice (for now) is ratpoison.  No menues, no icons. 
>I> have a few hotkey combinations in my .ratpoisonrc file to open some
>frequently> used programs (e.g., sylpheed, pheonix, Textmaker, emacs, xmms,
>etc), then the> rest from command line.
>> ==========================
>> 
>>>5.  If you launch applications and all the rest from the command line, 
>>>does the machine run faster overall?
>> 
>> =========================
>> Depends on the machine, but if you can avoid the more bloated desktop
>> environments like KDE or Gnome, yes your machine will likely run faster.
>> HTH,
>> Mike
>
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