basic operations: use rpm!
Rodolfo Alcazar
rodolfo.alcazar at padep.org.bo
Fri Dec 2 20:40:33 UTC 2005
On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 20:33 +0200, Phet Whore Meyer wrote:
> To whom it may concern,
>
> Ive recently left the dark and moved into linux, i just have this one query
> for now:
> In windows all programs were installed into a folder called 'Program Files',
> in linux, where is that equivelant folder? What is it called?
As you know,
- *Program Files* folder contains exclusive files for an application
- Windows (\system, \system32, etc.) and \Documents and Settings folders
contains shared and personalized files
Unixes, Linuxes, are somehow the same.
BUT: rpm files (linux install files) make all the job easy. You can try:
# rpm -qa
(will list you all packages)
# rpm -qi gcc
(will show you gcc package generalities)
# rpm -qil gcc
(the same, and what you need: ALL gcc files and locations. Theres no way
to know that on windows)
Yum is a rpm files automatizer, which handles mainly dependencies
between rpm packages.
> I know that this question is fairly trivial, is there anywhere else i can go
> to find out basic information such as this?
# man rpm
# man yum
or google for examples!
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