Re: basic operations: use rpm!

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On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 20:33 +0200, Phet Whore Meyer wrote:
> To whom it may concern,
> 
> Ive recently left the dark and moved into linux, i just have this one query 
> for now:
> In windows all programs were installed into a folder called 'Program Files', 
> in linux, where is that equivelant folder? What is it called?

As you know, 

- *Program Files* folder contains exclusive files for an application
- Windows (\system, \system32, etc.) and \Documents and Settings folders
contains shared and personalized files

Unixes, Linuxes, are somehow the same. 

BUT: rpm files (linux install files) make all the job easy. You can try:

# rpm -qa 
(will list you all packages)

# rpm -qi gcc 
(will show you gcc package generalities)

# rpm -qil gcc
(the same, and what you need: ALL gcc files and locations. Theres no way
to know that on windows)

Yum is a rpm files automatizer, which handles mainly dependencies
between rpm packages.

> I know that this question is fairly trivial, is there anywhere else i can go 
> to find out basic information such as this?

# man rpm
# man yum

or google for examples!

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