Installing with Yast
 

When you lets Yast install applications (like AMSN) where does it get installed?

Where do they go?

NOTE: There are A LOT of exceptions to this - since different programs are configured to
put files in different places - so don't take this all literally - just as general concepts.

In general, most of the time, your programs are installed in /usr/ subdirectories. That is
where the majority of installed programs are.

Most of my compiled programs end up in /usr/local/bin. While /usr/bin/ contains most
of the apps that were installed during the installation of my system.

They also may copy man (document/manual) pages in /usr/man/ or /usr/local/man/.
Or lib files in /usr/lib or /usr/local/lib

At times, depending on the program, you can specify where - for those I tend to use
my /opt/ directory.

If you have installed something, and an icon was not created, you can:
open the console and type in the name of the program
( ex. type ' konqueror ' and it will come up. Doing it this way, also allows you to see any
output given - good for trouble shooting problems)

OR use "find files" from the kde menu - and to speed up the search, limit it to search in
the /opt/ directory.

Hope that helps you along.
-tw