On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 11:52 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > 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/> > The path that you are exercising to the binary of most commands is revealed by the command "which". For example, "which evolution" returns "/usr/bin/evolution". In some cases the install will create a directory which contains the full application, and then which will show only the link to the executable. However if you then do " ls -al path/file" using the info returned by the which command you will see the link that is being followed. [me@localhost ~]$ which evolution /usr/bin/evolution [me@localhost ~]$ ls -al /usr/bin/evolution lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Nov 4 19:52 /usr/bin/evolution -> ./evolution-2.8 [me@localhost ~]$ ls -al /usr/bin/evolution-2.8 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 140248 Oct 27 07:02 /usr/bin/evolution-2.8 Regards, Les H
