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Old 12-29-2009, 03:22 AM   #1
rajevar
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rpm installation directory?


hi,

if i install an rpm package " rpm -i <file-name>" , is it getting installed in any particular folder in the system ? Im thinking in windows prespective so please pardon me

i had to install cronolog on RHEL 5.1, i untar the tar file , but if i try to run the file, i get the error saying "-bash: ./cronolog: cannot execute binary file"

i was told by someone to install rpm package, but i did it. my question is . if i install rpm, will the system automatically get the cronolog file ? i had to provide cronolog path in the config file and the one i know now is the file i got after untar.. is it possible to find the rpm installed cronolog file ?

thanks,
raj
 
Old 12-29-2009, 03:46 AM   #2
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rpm packages are installed into a fixed path, you cannot specify the install directory. If you wanna know where the files go after installation, you can run:
Code:
# rpm -ql <packagename>
This will list all the files installed by the package.
 
Old 12-29-2009, 04:40 AM   #3
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A little add-on to the previous post by ongte. You can also check where files will be installed prior to install a RPM package (provided you've downloaded it) using the -p option of the rpm command, e.g.
Code:
$ rpm -qlp cronolog-1.6.2-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
/usr/sbin/cronolog
/usr/sbin/cronosplit
/usr/share/doc/cronolog-1.6.2
/usr/share/doc/cronolog-1.6.2/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/cronolog-1.6.2/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/cronolog-1.6.2/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/cronolog-1.6.2/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/cronolog-1.6.2/README
/usr/share/doc/cronolog-1.6.2/TODO
/usr/share/info/cronolog.info.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/cronolog.1m.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/cronosplit.1m.gz
This list tells you that executables will be installed in /usr/sbin. Since this is a directory listed in the PATH environment variable of the sistem administrator only, you can run cronolog as root and not as a regular user.

To understand where software is usually installed, you have to understand the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, that is how a *nix system is organized and what every item under the origin of the directory tree is intended for. You can take a look at one of the documents here or at the Linux Filesystem Hierarchy HOWTO. Cheers!
 
Old 12-30-2009, 04:15 PM   #4
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Thank you, that worked !!

I ran $ rpm -ql cronolog-1.6.2-1.el5.rf

and found cronolog under /usr/sbin and was able to run the file without any error

thanks again

- raj
 
  


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