If you're trying out Linux—or completely switching over to it—after getting used to Windows or macOS, you're going to have to familiarize yourself with how software gets installed on this open source ...

I was running redhat 7.3 on an old p2 350 as a file server... got a new system so I put my old 1.2 tbird as the file server, put the redhat OS drive in the 1.2 tbird and booted linux fine, kudzu ...

I have tried RPMs from Freshmeat. If I go into Nautilus and double click the file, which is how I normally install RPMs now, nothing happens. If I go to a terminal, su, and then run rpm -ivh ...