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Does anyone know if Gnucash will work with KDE? Also, Which is better KDE or Gnome or is it just preference??? Finally, What do I do with a file that ends with a .tar ?????

Thanks

kiffney

it looks to me like gnucash is linked against motif and won't much care whether you're using gnome or kde desktop - as long as you're running X;

kde vs gnome is a religious war, both seem OK to me -

with a .tar file you can do

tar tf file.tar
to see the list of files in it
and
tar xf file.tar
to extract them all.

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modulus

W.r.t. running the app as linked against Motif, you will only be able to do that as long as you have the motif libraries installed (or their Free equivalents, the Lesstif libraries). Those do not automatically come with X.http://www.lesstif.org/
There might be an rpm for it on your distro cdrom.

BilboBaggins

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Thank you very much. I will probally use KDE for now. I will try CBB for finance. I tried to download and install it, but I am so new to Linux and I have trouble installing things all the time. I downloaded a file that was supposedly all set for Redhat, it was an rpm. I double clicked it and it went somewhere. Then I found it and typed make install at the directory where it went and got tons of errors and the CBB doesn't work??????????? Any good books you suggest on the way Linux works (application installs, etc.)
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modulus

Hi,
There are lots of excellent on line resources for linux. The best single place is the Linux Documentation Project: www.linuxdoc.org
This is broken up into FAQs, GUIDES and HOWTOs. Try out things interactively - it's the only way to learn. Don't be afraid of screwing your system up. Do it now and learn - you can always re-install! I recommend that you go to the GUIDES section and look at Matt Welsh's "Getting Started" guide. You can buy many of these as texts published by O'Reilly - they are formatted very nicely and worth it to have on hand when you're starting out.

the best thing to do with rpms is not to double click on them. Instead open a text terminal. Change directory (cd) to where the rpm is and use:
rpm -Uvh namesomethingorother.rpm

There are two type of rpms: those that are precompiled (binaries) and those that need to be compiled (source). If you can get a binary for the program that you want and you want to get going quickly then look at wherever you got the rpm and look for one that has a name like name.i386.rpm as opposed to name.src.rpm.

Have fun!

Best wishes,
modulus