How to know what is installed
 

1 : How do you know what's been installed on a linux PC (from source and packages)

2: And what to type in a terminal to run the application / package installed?

3: If you type 'make install' where does everythig go ? Can you delete the directory which contained the sources?

4: How do you check how much diskspace is left on a partition.

Thanks.

1. depends on your distribution. .example : slackware using pkgtool to manage the packages

2. see the documentation(README, INSTALL etc) in the source
3.yes. you can delete the source
4. at terminal, type "df" or "df -h" or "df --help" for more option

Thanks Nazmin , but is there any way too see whats been installed form source not packages or will pkgtool (example only) show you that too ?

How do you make you own packages for say Mandrake/RedHat

Do you know of any gui tool that can show you your disk usage ( nice one with graphs... ) ?


If i try too install a package for which the package dependencies have not been met, is there a way too automatically download and install the required packages ?

which distribution you are using

Gkrellm is an excellent system tool which can show you all kinds of funky information about your system from local weather to disk space on each partition. It also shows memory consumption, time and bandwidth usage.

Have a look at the website. If your using Mdk it should be listed on contrib I think, download it and have a look.

www.gkrellm.net/

if you use rpms,

'rpm -qa' lists all installed rpms.
'rpm -qal' lists all the files in those packages (usually lots)

rpm is a tool worth a few hours playing with.

As we all know, In the end, for serious work
using the command line and vi is always faster than any GUI.

I use a Makefile to make files called rpm.lis and rpm.index and keep them
up to date so can easily search for any info I need.
I'll dig it out if you want.

With queryformat and date options you can (look in the rpm docs,
/usr/share/doc/packages/rpm ?) order by install date. Which is good
coz you can install stuff then go through the latest, play and then get rid
of them if they're rubbish.


If you want a graphical tool there is one I used to use called 'xrpm'
which was beatifully small, light and simple and did exactly what i
generally needed. Python tool or Tcl, can't remember.


hopefully helpful

billy

I'm currenty testing Vector Linux , but I've also tested some others (redhat,mandrake,peanut.....).

Yes, depends on the distro you're using. For Debian there's apt, for Fedora there's yum and apt-get, for Gentoo it's emerge I think, Slackware has it's own too, can't recall the name now though (and too lazy too look it up :D)

I have no clue about Vector Linux though, never played around with it.

vector linux.....i think better you ask this questions in Vector linux forum....this might help you

Created the 3 Fedora image CDs- now to install?
Boot from CD1? Should I be able to see what's on the CD's with Win2K?
nb. CD1 won't boot CD just cycles forever.
Do I need a boot disk? Special partition? Any Fedora Install lit pointers would be appreciated.

Yes, you should be able to see what's on them on Win2k. And the first CD should be bootable.
so, the system tries to boot from CD1 but doesn't get further..and the CD cycles without end? Seems to be something wrong the recordable, the burning etc. try to burn CD1 again.

just to be sure: you burned them as images, right? :)

Thanx for the qick reply...yup downloaded fedora as an iso-created image with Easy CD Creator 4
Interesting that I can't read ANY of 4 CD's that I converted from ISO
I think you have the answer. I'll continue until I SEE the stuff on the CD's.

Thanks again.