well i have just installed red hat and i have downloaded xine for playing videos but i dont know how to install app on red hat or rather any linux system .can any one help pls

A big warning - I'm normally a debian user, but my guess would be:

- get an rpm of xine for the right version of red hat
- do rpm -ivh [name of rpm] at the command line, as root - this installs the program

should you later wish to remove it do rpm -e [name of rpm], again at the command line, as root.



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