Default place?
 

Hmm... Im really lost with my Linux time to time and now is the time, AGAIN :P

I mean, Gee...

When im installing programs, right after:
./configure
make install

Im having difficultien FINDING the program, I mean what's the default place that Mandrake Linux installs progs? Because I would like to make shortcuts to my desktop from em. And I can't seem to find em myself.

usually ./configure will install it in /usr/local --- if you want to specify where to install do , use ./configure --prefix=/your_preferred_place

most of the time you can just create a shortcut on the desktop and in the run command entry type the program name.
good luck.

In a terminal you can type either:

whereis <programname>

or

locate <programname>

or even

find <programname>

One of these should show you the directories that contain that program name, if you are looking for the executable then, most likely, it will be in /usr/local/bin or /usr/share/bin.

rberry88

Thanks again.

whereis and locate will work after a cron job updates the database. You could use the find command.
find /usr -cmin -10
will find all new files under the /usr directory
created in the last 10 minutes.

You could also read the Makefile. When you type in the 'make install' step, it will usually execute a copy command which is echoed on stderr. So you could redirect the
output.