Where do I find installed applications in linux?
Sunday, May 31st, 2009 at
17:25
I’m fairly new to linux and i’m using openSUSE. I used the YaST package manager to download a few applications but now I don’t know where to find them. Where are these applications ususally located in the linux filesystem?
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It depends how you install the applications. You stated you used the YaST package manager so I will go over that just a bit.
Within YaST, go to Software -> Software Management
Search for your package, highlight the package name, tab over to Information -> File List
All files will be displayed.
Here is some more info for you just to pique your interest.
A “real” YaST source (also called susetags source) consists of several files and directories that describe the installation source and its content: binary RPM files for various architectures and the respective source RPM files.
SUSE is rpm based for installing packages. Open a terminal, type:
rpm -qa | less
Will list all rpm installed apps.
The /usr/share/doc/packages/ directory contains information about each package.
Finally, I would recommend installing the findutils package.
If you simply want to know where the executable file is, in a terminal, type:
which “executable file name”
ex. which rpm
will return “/bin/rpm”
Click Computer -> instal software
And in there you should be able to filter the search to only show the apps you have installed.
The programs you installed should show on the menus.
If they haven’t, which shows poor packaging, then you will need to edit the menus, and find out the command to start each respective program. A good way of doing this is to try and start them from a terminal.