Installation Path lookup?

nyheat · 12-18-2007, 03:23 PM

How do I lookup the installation directory of a program?

i.e. I'd like to know what directory mysql was installed to, how do I look this up?

poonippi · 12-18-2007, 03:48 PM

Code:

whereis <program-name>

After anything specifically with MySQL?

reddazz · 12-18-2007, 03:51 PM

If you are using an rpm based distro running something like "rpm -ql mysql" will show you where all the files were placed. Another very good command is "which". It only looks in your path, so shows you where executables are.

poonippi · 12-19-2007, 06:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by reddazz

If you are using an rpm based distro running something like "rpm -ql mysql" will show you where all the files were placed.

The .deb equivalent is

Code:

dpkg -L <package-name>

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reddazz · 12-19-2007, 06:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by poonippi

The .deb equivalent is

Code:

dpkg -L <package-name>

.

Cool. Thanks for that one.

nyheat · 12-21-2007, 06:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by reddazz

If you are using an rpm based distro running something like "rpm -ql mysql" will show you where all the files were placed. Another very good command is "which". It only looks in your path, so shows you where executables are.

As far as I understand, that only holds through for programs that were installed via RPM? What about makefile type of installs?

I ran whereis php and got the following:

Code:

 whereis php
php: /usr/bin/php /etc/php.d /etc/php.ini /usr/lib/php /usr/lib/php.ini /usr/local/bin/php /usr/local/lib/php.ini,v /usr/local/lib/php /usr/local/lib/php.ini /usr/include/php /usr/man/man1/php.1 /usr/share/man/man1/php.1.gz

How do I know which one is being used?
Is it /usr/bin/php
or /usr/local/bin/php?