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! -- Rodolfo Alcazar - rodolfo.alcazar@xxxxxxxxxxxx Netzmanager Padep, GTZ 591-70656800, -22417628, LA PAZ, BOLIVIA http://otbits.blogspot.com -- Grossman's Misquote: Complex problems have simple, easy to understand wrong answers.
