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Ive just installed mandrake 9.2 and can't figure out where red carpet installs from a rpm??
I've also installed mono (.net project for Linux) and also can't figure out where its installed.
I've tried installing and receive the following output
well programs don't install like they do in windows where there is a program folder with all the bits in
you might try looking in /usr/bin
any program installed here will launch from the command line, just open a terminal, type the program name and hit enter
if this doesn't work
then
look in /usr/local or /usr/local/bin
open a terminal, su to root and type updatedb
this will build a database of all files and folders on the system
when it's finished exit from root mode
then type locate xxx (where xxx is program name) and you'll get a list of where all the instances are
if the output from this is too big, which is often the case, then type locate xxx | less
this will give you the results a page/screen at a a time, you then use the down arrow to scroll down the list
well i found red carpet although now i cant figure out how to use it... is it meant to have a gui? i've found rcd under /usr/sbin although it says in man that its simply a backend daemon program used by a program "rug" although i can't find rug anywhere... meh i'll search around the web for details on running rcd
Anyways thanks for the help locate is DEFINATELY what ive been missing!
i was just assuming it would auto add the new program to my menu somewhere, i guess i do this myself
i also found that there is a switch when using rpm that allows me to override the default install location
hmm ok i keep expecting that these package programs have some sort of interface... am i right in thinking that they don't? i've just located urpmi and its doesn't seem to have one either
... mind you that link you provided (easy urpmi) generated a nice command which has resulted in urpmi downloading something.... so seems to be getting me somewhere in regards to updates
I just remember a while ago using redhat 7 it had a nice update program similar to windows update... is there something like this for someone like teh n00b i am?
but
once it's setup, you can go to Configuration>Packaging and explore the various options to be found there. (One of which is Mandrake Update.) In the Install Software part there is a "filter/sort by" drop down menu, one of the options will be "by package repositry" ( or something like that), this then shows you all the available sources of software so you can select the one you want.
damn was mandrake update always there or was it only after running urmpi? anyways i'd found the command "urmpi --auto-select" which used my local server
"www.planetmirror.com.au" to check for updates and returned a full list of everything... works perfectly!
i've actually found the error in my ways. Basically i double checked back with ximien and their download page. I stupidly didn't download all _three_ download packages...
1st was for rcd which is The Red Carpet Daemon (rcd) and so is just a background program. This is the package i installed
2nd The Red Carpet Graphical User Interface (red-carpet): this is needed for running the actual package installer GUI.
3rd is rug and command line interface to rcd (not what i want either) this is probably similar to the command line interface for urpmi
so its definately installed... just have no idea where !?
rpm -ql PKGNAME list all files that belong to a package
rpm -qi PKGNAME list information about a package
rpm -qilf ABSOLUTE_FILENAME lists information and all files in the package the file ABSOLUTE_FILENAME belongs to
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