On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 22:31, Jason Dixon wrote: > On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 23:20, David Eduardo Gomez Noguera wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 21:03, the brilliant beast wrote: > > > hello I installed real player rpm package. this is a x windows ap. > > > how ever when I look in my list of aplications I do not see it. > > > where does all the programs I install go?? > > > this is frustrating me cause I can't find it on here. > > > can you help me out? > > > thanks > > > hank > > > > > > > It is, in my humble opinion, not a good idea for an app to add itself to > > menues. you could do an > > rpm -qi > > on teh rpm you just installed to see where the binaries are. Then > > Please be careful with the advice you hand out. This is the 2nd > questionable RPM suggestion I've seen you post. The correct command to > view installed files, as mentioned by Bret, is "rpm -ql <package>", > where <package> is the name of said package. >
oops, my mistake, yeah, sorry. > If you're unsure of the name of the package, you can use the "rpm -qf > <file>" command to get the package that owns a particular file. This is > in contrast to your earlier suggestion of "rpm -e --whatprovides `locate > apachectl`". First, the --whatprovides option is used with the query > (-q) flag, not the delete (-e) flag. In this case, the user should have I was just doing guess work, and I marked my suggestion as dubious. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
