On Thursday 14 April 2005 21:48, Jason Hoskins wrote: >How do I determine where an application is installed in Fedora Core > 3? I have installed a couple of apps using RPMs and I do not know > how to start them. I have found Netscape which from the terminal I > type '/.Netscape' and it sounded like it was starting, waited for a > few minutes and returned to the command prompt. > >Thanks in advance! Wrong syntax. If you are in the same directory as the executable, but it (that directory) is not in your $PATH, then the syntax is ./Netscape, not /.Netscape. The latter syntax would tell it to look in the / directory or partition, for a hidden file called .Netscape. Taint gonna work (unless thats where you put it that is :-) -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.34% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
