Hi I need to install a .rpm file to get my wireless nic to work. Ok so this is what i do I go to console. my root directory and I type rpm -ivh wireless-tools-25-8.scr.rpm and then some weird things come up and a key code or something and then a a few ### with an 100% at the end. Now i'm pretty sure I know that means it extracts it. But where did it extract it. I don't see it and cant find it. All I see is my .rpm file still any help please??? thank you!

Actually, once you see the line ################################ 100% ################################ 100% and then get your terminal prompt back, it is installed. It is no longer an rpm file though. You can now type in rpm -q wireless-tools and you should get a response telling you what version is now installed. This isn't a program that needs to be launched or anything, so you should now be able to set up your nic card. Just go into the Network Configuration gui and you should be fine.

rpm is a bit buggy at redhat 8.0 and 9.0. I myself had trouble here. Goto www.rpm.org and see for yourself.

To see where an rpm has put things: $ rpm -ql wireless-tools It looks as though you have downloaded the source rpm (indicated by the ".scr.rpm" at the end of the filename). This will probably just unpack the source to somewhere under /usr/src for you to compile yourself. One option you could use is the rebuild function of rpm. # rpm --rebuild wireless-tools-25-8.scr.rpm This will unpack the source and compile it for you, producing an RPM which you can then install as you would any other. Look through the last few lines of output and you should see something like "written /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/wireless-tools-25-8.rpm". You can then install this: # rpm -ivh /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/wireless-tools-25-8.rpm