rpm's

[Anonymous]

Hey, when I do rpm -iv whatever and it installs where does RedHat put the files? Is there a RPM directory that contains the actual executable binary?

thanks

[ibix]

When you do an rpm -iv you are asking the system to install (-i) and to be verbose (-v) when installation begin when you press enter. if you are installing system files important for your system they will be placed in the /bin directory. if you are installing a development library then it will be placed in the /lib directory. if you want to find where your new files are installed use the following command:

find / -name 'file name*'

remember I wrote file name and an asterisk just as an example, when you do just type the name of the file you are looking for.

good hunting.

[wassy121]

ahh! Don't do that, that thrashes the hell out of your hard disk. You can tell what a rpm file installs with `rpm -ql packagename`. If you see a file, and what to know what installed it try `rpm -q --whatprovides filename`.

[ibix]

I thought that using the find command was not dangerous, is that what you mean? :o

I do it everytime in my system, whitout a problem, but if it causes a damage please let me know. what about if I use locate command?

thanks.

[majorwoo]

no wassy just meant that it will take awhile because he is starting at / and searching everywhere for a file. By thrashing he did not mean damage to the hard drive, just making it work alot harder then needed.

rpm -ql <package_name> will list the files the package installed, that redat keeps this info in the rpm database - so it takes much less time.

[ibix]

Thanks guys, I forgot that command, since I have been working a lot with rpm those days, because I am compiling a program that has become a nightmare. I am installing whatever you could imagine. (I believe... I got the answer)

bye.

[Dolda2000]

rpm -q --whatprovides filename is unnecessarily long, though. Just rpm -qf filename will do just as good.

[wassy121]

ahh shorthand, made for people that like to read 5 minutes of documentation to save 3 seconds on a command

[majorwoo]

I say wassy and dolda, 3:30pm at the flagpole! I'll ref!