location of software installed by "yum" command?
 

How can I get to know the location of a software installed by "yum" command?

In fact the problem I met right now is:
One software I'm trying to install need the package of HDF5.
But when I tried " yum install hdf5", it seems this package has been installed.

So I need to find out where I installed the HDF5 in Fedora16.
or just figure out where are those

--hdf5-dir=HDF5_DIR Base directory for HDF5 installation.
--hdf5-inc-dir=HDF5_INC_DIR Directory for HDF5 headers.
--hdf5-lib-dir=HDF5_LIB_DIR Directory for HDF5 libraries.
--hdf5-libs=HDF5_LIBS HDF5 libraries.

Thanks,

Rimbong

Okay, well, it seems only Yum knows where the software is installed, hmm, not good. What I can suggest is to either append the PATH variable (not really good) or (even better) locate the program/software and put a symlink to it in, say, /etc:

whare "software" obviously is the name of the software in question. An example to something in the /opt folder and executed in the /etc folder:

where "fpscan" is the name of the program...

I think Fedora has a find-files util somewhere in the Accessories section, but I'm not sure...

Good luck

Thor

Use rpm.
 

You might try:I'm not sure exactly what yum is: it seems to be little more than a bunch of gratuitous sugar and spice spinning on top of rpm.

rpm's are installed in standard locations ( most of the time)
/usr/bin
/usr/lib
/usr/lib64
/usr/share

now some like Libreoffice
/opt/libreoffice3.4

The command : rpm -ql hdf5

.. will reply with the "hdf5" file list.