Installing apps in X Based BEL Solutions
From BEL
Command Line RPM/APT-GET
You can install "standalone" packages easily that aren't in the repos by using a simple command line command. RPM.
First, open your file manager ( Thunar in BEL X based ISO's ) and navigate to the directory the new package you want to install is in.
Once you have found the package in it's directory, you can right-click in the open Thunar window on any blank white space and a pop up window will open.
One of the options will be "open terminal here". This is the one to select. It will open something like this:
At this point, you will use the RPM command to install, now that you are in the correct directory, you can copy/paste the command into your terminal
rpm -ihv {followed by package name}
such as
rpm -ihv task-bel-basic-office-1.0-BEL_Project2007.noarch.rpm
This will begin installing your package from it's current location.
The -i is the switch to install the package, h is to print hashes to show it's progress ( for us visual people, and the v is is for verbose.
It may give you warnings in regard to dependencies. make sure you are aware that all dependencies for whatever package you are installing are also present, or it may not work.
You may also use the apt-get install command at the command line prompt instead.
you can type ( copy/paste ):
apt-get install {package name follows}
so for you a sample might look like
apt-get install task-bel-basic-office-1.0-BEL_Project2007.noarch.rpm
Links
apt-get install apt-get install How To from Debian
This is a very good explanation of how to use apt-get, even if it is in regard to debian, the principle is the same.
rpm - RPM info
Again, In regard to Fedora/RedHat, but valuable information all the same.
From Source
Install from Source - Using Checkinstall
Install from Source - Using ./configure,make,make install
