FlashBack installation instructions. ==================================== 1. Fedora RPM On Fedora Core 3, and probably on some other RPM based distributions, you can install FlashBack from RPM package. Earlier version of Fedora / Red Hat operating systems have incompatible with FlashBack gtk/pygtk versions. Installing from command line: ----------------------------- Become root: su If it is the first version of FlashBack you're installing on the machine: rpm -iv FlashBack-.noarch.rpm If you're upgrading from a previous version: rpm -Uv FlashBack-.noarch.rpm Installing from Nautilus (unattested): -------------------------------------- You can try to open the RPM file from Nautilus, it'll then ask you for the root password and then install it. 2. setup.py On other OSes you can install using the setup.py script in the source tarball (FlashBack-.tar.gz): tar xvzf FlashBack-.tar.gz cd FlashBack- su python setup.py install