.rpg and Mandrake

[Cyber Source]

You would have needed to have been root to install the rpm file. The 
shutdown command needs another options you left out, type "shutdown -h 
now" and that will do it. A -r would mean a reboot.

Timothy Domst wrote:

> I have an older Nvidia card that had the proprietary 3d driver on 
> their website only, not the Mandrake install disks.  I got the .rpg 
> files on my desktop after I got them from the site, and just clicked 
> on them and they expanded and installed.  The computer didn't seem to 
> have to look to find the rest of the card's drivers in the 
> filesystem.  Is this because Linux has a rigid filesystem that can't 
> be changed so everything can be found by the system, and therefore no 
> search was needed?  Or are they just in my Usr folder somewhere?
>
> I also have a question about shutting down.  I tried shutdown -h from 
> the terminal and it didn't work.  Am I getting the syntax wrong?