Hey there,

I got Red Hat up and running well on my laptop but I am having trouble figureing out how the heck to install programs with the OS. I'm not talking about just RPM's. I mean everything from tar.gz to other file types. Is there some program out there that can do for me what WinZip does on my windows machine? because this is getting very frustrating and the fact that I'm new doesn't help heh heh. Even when I click the file that I wnt to install and then hit 'run' or 'run in terminal' it does absolutely nothing... and here I am at my computer asking.... why?

All I want to figuer out is how I can install and get things up and running on my system so I can run things like NMAP or Nessus and things like that.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

-- Peace