whereis kate

shanenin · 09-15-2005, 11:29 AM

I wanted to make a icon to the kate editor, but I am not sure where the location of it is. It runs by typing the command, but I am not sure how it is in my path

Code:

shane@mainbox ~ $ whereis kate
kate:
shane@mainbox ~ $ kate
kbuildsycoca running...
ASSERT: "m_currentContainer==container" in kateviewmanager.cpp (196)
kio (KMimeType): WARNING: KServiceType::offers : servicetype ThumbCreator not found

shanenin · 09-15-2005, 11:39 AM

It seems to be here

Code:

shane@mainbox ~ $ ls -l /usr/kde/3.4/bin/ | grep kate
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   4824 Sep 15 00:44 kate

which /usr/ke/3.4/bin is in my path, so why does not the whereis command find it?

megaspaz · 09-15-2005, 01:20 PM

because /usr/kde/3.4/bin/ is not set in your $PATH variable(???). check it by:

echo $PATH

another command that doesn't require knowledge of what's in your $PATH, but does require you to keep you locate db up to date is:

locate kate

shanenin · 09-15-2005, 01:29 PM

Quote:

which /usr/ke/3.4/bin is in my path, so why does not the whereis command find it?

sorry that did not make much sense, I was trying to say it is in my path. the whereis command must not use the $PATH variable

Code:

shane@mainbox ~ $ echo $PATH
/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/3.3.5-20050130:/usr/i386-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/3.3.5:/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.08/bin:/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.08/jre/bin:/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.08/jre/javaws:/usr/qt/3/bin:/usr/kde/3.4/bin:/usr/kde/3.3/bin:/usr/games/bin:/home/shane/bin

I just found this last line in the whereis man page

Quote:

whereis has a hard-coded path, so may not always find what you're look-
ing for.

aysiu · 09-15-2005, 02:42 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by shanenin
I wanted to make a icon to the kate editor, but I am not sure where the location of it is. It runs by typing the command, but I am not sure how it is in my path

You don't need to know the location of it to make an icon for it. Create the launcher, and for command, just type kate.