On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 10:50:49AM -0600, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > This is something I consider a weakness of almost every distribution's > package manager. Periodically, I need to know where a package was put > when it was installed. In this case, I'm looking for ysql-connector-java > - but the more important question is "how do I ask yum / rpm / ??? where > it installed package A". I've looked at the man, but the only command > that seemed like it *MIGHT* work was yum info ... and it told me > everything except what I needed to know. rpm -ql packagename To look at an uninstalled package, do "rpm -qlp packagefile.rpm". (Or, just view it in less and scroll down -- magic.) -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>