Re:Where are the programs?
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Use a program like RPM Wizard. It will give you the option so start the program after installing it and put a shortcut on the desktop.
>Never mind that I wanted the files to be in my home directory.
Most often you don't want your program in the home directory. Non-standard install locations will make the menu items useless and will prevent you from starting the program from the command line with just the program name.
RPM and how to solve the problems
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RPM does have some real problems. That doesn't mean that the problems could not be dealt with. The problem with one RPM not working on several distributions can only be handled by adopting standards. LSB is a step in the right direction but it does not seem to work quite yet. There should be standards for where to put specific programs like KDE and all RPM based dists should follow them. The best thing in my opinion is something like United Linux -- several distributions that use the same base system. That would be the only way you can make all distributions really compatible. I'm not saying all distributions should join United Linux, becouse IMHO they still have some serious problems, like not having a totally free (as in speach) base system.
As for the problem with dependencies there are a few already existing solutions. One is apt-rpm and another is the GUI based RPM Wizard.
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Use a program like RPM Wizard. It will give you the option so start the program after installing it and put a shortcut on the desktop.
>Never mind that I wanted the files to be in my home directory.
Most often you don't want your program in the home directory. Non-standard install locations will make the menu items useless and will prevent you from starting the program from the command line with just the program name.
RPM does have some real problems. That doesn't mean that the problems could not be dealt with. The problem with one RPM not working on several distributions can only be handled by adopting standards. LSB is a step in the right direction but it does not seem to work quite yet. There should be standards for where to put specific programs like KDE and all RPM based dists should follow them. The best thing in my opinion is something like United Linux -- several distributions that use the same base system. That would be the only way you can make all distributions really compatible. I'm not saying all distributions should join United Linux, becouse IMHO they still have some serious problems, like not having a totally free (as in speach) base system. As for the problem with dependencies there are a few already existing solutions. One is apt-rpm and another is the GUI based RPM Wizard.