Basic doubts in linux?

[kapmsd]

hi guys

i wanna know where the installed softwares gets stored in ubuntu
i mean the folders in which the files gets stored... like usr, var,etc.

I also wanna know there copying and pasting of the installed files in another machine will work... else it maintains something like registry in windows

[Lakshmipathi]

Frankly I don't know the answer for your question.Hope someother LF member will have the answer. OT I can't resist, great picture on your Avatar lol lol

EDIT: Sorry,I was distracted by your funny picture , didn't understand your question. As Jay said, If your are looking for specific binary you can find it using whereis command. or which command if you have two version of same program.

Anyway all the binaries should be available in one of directories mentioned in environmental variable PATH.

echo $PATH

HTH

[jayd512]

Most of your applications will probably be stored in /usr/bin.
The command whereis is really helpful for finding your files: man whereis.

As far as copying a file over, I've not tried it. But provided that both computers are running the same OS, I don't see what the issue could be... but don't quote me on that

[kapmsd]

how to find what and all folders(var,etc,usr) will get affected by the installation of a specific software.

[oz]

I also wanna know there copying and pasting of the installed files in another machine will work... else it maintains something like registry in windows

Welcome to the forums!

If you want to copy the contents of one machine to another, take a look at using a cloning tool such as clonezilla. You can also look at partimage and the dd command as other possible options.

[coopstah13]

the problem with what you are trying to do is most packages will have lots of dependency files and other things

you can find all the files installed by a particular package with dpkg -L command on debian based distro

[kapmsd]

Thanks a lot guys for ur input!!