find the location fo the insttaled software

MarD · 10-28-2009, 11:57 AM

Hi all,
i am an Ubuntu newbie and i have one question:

How can i identify the directory's location of the installed software which i installed their form Synaptic??

are there some commands to check taht?

where are the installed software and packages usually installed?

thanks in advance

pljvaldez · 10-28-2009, 12:11 PM

Typically things are installed to /usr/bin or /usr/sbin. You can check packages by doing whereis packagename or which packagename.

MarD · 10-28-2009, 01:31 PM

Hi again,

is there any command to check where the header oder source files are located?? something like that: command header.h

please help

pljvaldez · 10-28-2009, 01:58 PM

Usually kernel source and headers get installed to the /usr/src directory. You might need to install a package for the kernel source or kernel headers.

Quakeboy02 · 10-28-2009, 02:13 PM

To view the files installed by synaptic for a package, select the package, then Properties->Installed Files. Generally, user executables installed by synaptic will go in /usr/bin.

Samotnik · 10-28-2009, 03:15 PM

You can see all files installed from package by dpkg -L <packagename> command.

MarD · 10-28-2009, 06:48 PM

thanks a lot for your response..