Where'd they go ?

[Paul Lussier]

Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> writes:

> 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

There are several ways:

 - use your package manager to list the contents of different packages
   (rpm -ql foo.rpm, dpkg -L foo.deb, etc.)

 - check the man pages for the program/application in question
 - find things which are in your path using 'which', 'whence', or 'whereis'
 - use locate to read the contents of the locatedb database

> Command line programs are normally placed in /usr/bin. KDE apps are
> usually in /opt/kde3/bin.

Is this standard for KDE, or is this particular to a certain distribution?

> In both cases use the whereis command: 
> gaf at gaf:~> whereis ethereal
> ethereal: /usr/bin/ethereal /usr/lib/ethereal /usr/share/ethereal /usr/share/man/man1/ethereal.1.gz

Note that of all those things listed, the only runnable binary is the
first one in /usr/bin.

> Some KDE apps don't automatically show up in the menus. Normally, if
> you log out and log in, the menus are updated. 

You should probably get rather familiar with your system's
documentation, specifically, read whatever docs are available for the
package manager your system uses, and then start investigating various
man pages.  And, of course, feel free to shout for help here when you
need it (someone here is bound to be able to help, or at least point
you in the right direction :)

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Seeya,
Paul