installed new program but cant find it
 

I've just started using linux via Mandrake 10 and have tried my first install from rpmdrake. I installed gnome pilot and the installation reported that this completed without problems - but I can't find it. I've recompliled the menu - still no joy.

How do I find programs that I've just installed?

To see where the files went you can run:
rpm -ql packagename

Yeh, I had that problem too :) When I installed things from source, they didnt pop up in the 'start' menu or whatever so I was really confused. I ended up doing a 'search for files' in the / directory and eventually finding the launcher :)

I believe most things have a launcher which installs to the /usr/bin file (I am not positive though).

thanks
 

Thanks for you help both of you - I need to find a few hours spare to play around with this.

Form console type
$ which "program_name"
where program_name stands for the name of the program you just installed
you'll get as output the full path of binaries ie
/usr/bin/program_name
Ciao

getting there...
 

Thanks

I installed kpilot and ran $ which "program_name". This showed me the program was in /usr/bin/ Clicking on it than ran the program.

What confused me was that rpm told me that the package was installed - I understood this in the windows way which meant that it now showed in my program menu. So with linux are there two stages - install the package and then run the package ?


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