FC3: lost a program

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at mindspring.com
Fri Apr 8 20:57:14 UTC 2005


On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Tomas wrote:

> hello, i wanted to install "wine" so i could run some windows
> programs. so i downloaded the RPM. then i unpacked the package. but
> now i don't know where it installed everything. usually when i
> installed an RPM i could see it in my menu but now i cant find it.
> on the site of wine i could not find an answer to my question, so i
> hope some one here can help me.

you can always get a list of installed files for an RPM with:

 $ rpm -ql wine

or whatever the package name is.  there's another trick that's not so
widely known and that's querying package names by wildcard:

 $ rpm -qa "*wine*"

rday




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