On Wednesday 24 July 2002 21:11, you wrote:
Hi,
I know someone asked this before but I've checked the man page for rpm and I can't figure out how to tell where something has been installed ... is there an easy way?
Hi James, As well as the various rpm ways of finding things that people have told you about, there's also the find command. It takes lots of options, but suppose you've installed package / compiled and installed something called foo. As root, do: find / -name foo* This will search the whole file system, / , for foo, foobar, foowhatever, etc. Find will also do a lot of other stuff like find files modified, created, etc. before, on, or after specific dates and so on. It does more besides, but there are plenty more expert people on this list to tell you what, and typing 'info find' as well as 'man find' will give you the full s.p. You don't have to be root to use it - but if you're searching file systems not owned by your username you may get strings of 'permission denied' messages otherwise. Of course you can start the find anywhere in the directory hierarchy, so: find . -name foo* will look for foo, foobar, foowhatever, etc., in the current directory and those below it. You should also check out the commands whereis and which to look for program files. HTH Fergus