topic Re: find out installed directory from command line in Operating System - Linux

find out installed directory from command line

'chris' — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 12:52:16 GMT

hi

how to find out installed directory from command line under linux,
for example, where was mozilla installed ?

kind regards
chris

Re: find out installed directory from command line

Slawomir Gora — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 13:08:57 GMT

Hej,
it depends on which linux system.
For system with rpm packages (RedHat, Fedora) you can do:
rpm -qa | grep mozilla | xargs rpm -ql

On Slackware linux
more /var/adm/packages/mozi*

Re: find out installed directory from command line

Stuart Browne — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 13:40:56 GMT

On most distributions these days, there is a package called 'which'.

This small application searches through the path for binaries matching the name passed to it, so you could do:

which mozilla

If what you're searching for is not in the path, then you've got the option of using the 'slocate' database:

locate mozilla

This will list all filenames in the 'slocate' database that matches the given name.

All that being said, if you need information about what files a given package has put onto your filesystem (on a Debian box), then things get a little messy. 'apt', 'dpkg' and 'dselect' are your friends though.

Re: find out installed directory from command line

'chris' — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 13:54:18 GMT

I have Debian Sarge Stable.

Re: find out installed directory from command line

'chris' — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 14:05:04 GMT

I think "whereis" is, what I'm looking for.

SUSE 8.2:

# whereis mozilla
mozilla: /usr/X11R6/bin/mozilla /usr/bin/X11/mozilla /usr/X11/bin/mozilla /opt/mozilla/bin/mozilla.sh /usr/share/man/man1/mozilla.1.gz
# which mozilla
/usr/X11R6/bin/mozilla
# locate mozilla
-bash: locate: command not found

DEBIAN SARGE:

# whereis mozilla
mozilla: /usr/bin/mozilla /etc/mozilla /usr/lib/mozilla /usr/share/man/man1/mozilla.1.gz
# which mozilla
/usr/bin/mozilla
# locate mozilla
/usr/lib/mozilla/res/rdf/loading.gif
/usr/lib/mozilla/res/samples
/usr/lib/mozilla/res/samples/aform.css
/usr/lib/mozilla/res/samples/Anieyes.gif
/usr/lib/mozilla/res/samples/beeptest.html
/usr/lib/mozilla/res/samples/bform.css
/usr/lib/mozilla/res/samples/bg.jpg
/usr/lib/mozilla/res/samples/cform.css
/usr/lib/mozilla/res/samples/checkboxTest.xul
/usr/lib/mozilla/res/samples/colorpicker.xul
............................................
............................................
............................................

which shows only a startup script.

greetings
chris

Re: find out installed directory from command line

Dave Falloon — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 12:04:07 GMT

Here are some useful debian commands:

dpkg -l

the package name is optional, this command outputs a table of packages installed on a machine with a brief description like so:

bofh:~# dpkg -l whois
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-====================-====================-========================================================
ii whois 4.7.0 the GNU whois client
bofh:~#

You can find out more about a specific package with this command :

dpkg -s

This prints out the summary and library information for a package.

dpkg -L

this tells you the actual location on the filesystem for everything that came in a package.

There are lots of other great switches to dpkg to help administer debian boxes.

--Dave