Hi all,

I executed "apt-get install sourcenav", it installed properly.

But, how do I find out where are the executable binary files are kept?

Thank you.

Eh? Why do you want to mess with the binary files? If you do apt-get, it not only fetches the application but installs it too. There is nothing left to do after that (with the possible exception of a little configuration for some apps but that is nothing like installing them).

Anyway, if you do want to have a peek at the binary files, they get saved to a cache in your /var folder. That cache, by the way, can be cleaned from time to time when you don't see any reason to keep all those packages around. It's best done from the command line, not manually.

Thx for reply.

During "apt-get install", it won't tell you that where are the important files that it copy to the destination folder. That's what I'm interested to find out. Even after, "apt-get install", is there a way to trace back where those files located?

Thx.

You could use "locate sourcenav" from the command line to see where everything went. You don't need to be root to use locate.

In addition to that:

"locate" does only work after an "updatedb". Unless you have updatedb in you cron, you have to run it manually and you have to THAT as root.

updatedb --prunepaths='/mnt'

Alternatively you can use find:

cd /
find . -name "*myprogram*"

but it takes much longer.

It is not an uncommon problem that you cannot find where apt put the binaries, and much more annoying is when apt installed binaries which do not match the package name. This happens sometime when installing packages like "network-tools" or so.

jlinkels

I think there is an option in apt-file to give you the same information, although like others above, I find it hard to imagine why you'd want it. You can always look at the Debian Packages website to see exactly what's included in the current version of any given package.

Most likely /usr/bin or /usr/sbin to find the files for an installed package dpkg -L package_name or if not installed and you have installed the apt-file program then ran apt-file update as root the apt-file list package_name will show you the files in the package before you install using search instead of list will find the package that contains the file you need comes in hand if compiling from source and the ./configure errors out not finding a header file.

dpkg -L sourcenav

edit: repeat answer HappyTux already said it