Where'd they go ?

[Dan Jenkins]

On Sun, 27 Nov 2005 12:44:47 -0500
Mike Medai <mikemedai at netscape.net> wrote:

>How do I go about finding where things get installed, both command line 
>and using KDE?  And how to start them if they don't "magically" appear 
>in the "start applications" pop-up menu that KDE has provided (and which 
>is driving me nuts as I next plan on rearranging that darn thing properly)?
>
>How does one determine whether a particular program is meant/designed 
>for a GUI interface or a command line interface (the obvious Kxxxxx 
>doesn't count)?  I've sorted out that when downloading from the 'net, if 
>the program is written for X, then it essentially has a GUI interface.  
>But that doesn't crop up on the source cd's.
>  
>
(I believe Suse uses RPMs through YaST. It's been awhile since I used 
Suse last.)
For RPM packages, rpm -ql {name of package} will list the files with 
their paths.
rpm -qi {name of package} may give you some information as to the 
whether the
package is graphical or not. Since I don't use graphical tools under 
Linux normally,
I don't know.

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