Hi there. I have Ubuntu 14.04 installed. Actually I have been doing a lot of work in this OS for about a year. The thing I cannot still comprehend is how to find files I installed. In this particular case I need glut.h for g++ compiler. So I go here, do this command;

And find out that I already have the newest version (which I have suspected since I recall installing it).

So, the next step is to find the glut.h file and reference it with #include command. I cannot find it anywhere. This website says it has to be here:

Why's the asterisk? Is it a footnote or part of the code?

I don't seem to have /usr/ directory. I cannot find it anywhere.

How does Ubuntu directory work?

Thanks, - A.

You can use find command for searching.

Most C header files would be in /usr/include ... libraries are in lib.

alex@alex-....:~/GFORTRAN-APPS/SPHERE-DESIGN$ find / -type f -name "glut.h"
find: `/run/udisks2': Permission denied
find: `/run/lightdm': Permission denied
find: `/run/cups/certs': Permission denied

Why is it so? I am the administrator on this machine. I installed this OS. I also think veerain misdialed the command. It seems to be:

The answer: No such file or directory.

This I also got:

I also tried this:

Command 'find' from package 'findutils' (main)

It is already there. Nothing was installed.

Where is the /usr/ directory?

Where is the /usr/ directory?

OK, I just installed Qt library or whatnot. Then I issued some commends I found here. See what happened:

It tells me that the library is in /usr/ subdirectory. Where is it? Why is it such a crazy mystery? I cannot find /usr/ anywhere.

It means to find and file in that directory beginning with libglut, so if you had a libglut1, libglut2, etc. they should all show.

In the terminal type: ls / That will show you all the directories in the root of the filesystem including usr.
If you are in a filemanager, use the up arrow to get to the root of the system. There are standard directories on Linux and they are listed under / alphabetically.

Run the find command as root, preface it with sudo. The prompt in your earlier post (#4) clearly shows you are running it as a normal user.

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Thank you. Very good. It is now working. A.

For finding files on the whole filesystem locate is very useful. You may need to install it first
To be able to start using it first needs to create an index of your hard drive. It does that automatically through cron, but you can start the process right away by typing
This may take a while, but once that is done you can simply type e.g.
You'll find that it is faster then find when you search the whole disk and I personally also think it's easier to use if you are not used to the find syntax

Cherry 2000 :-), sorry, Joe_2000, thank you. I used the first command and it installed locate as was reported. Locate works now. - A.