Dumb Question: Installing new version of Kopete
Scot L. Harris
webid at cfl.rr.com
Thu Sep 2 19:13:53 UTC 2004
On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 12:38, Andrey Andreev wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Jo O'Connor wrote:
>
> > However, I'm too dumb to figure out how to install this, as I can't even
> > figure out where my current version of Kopete is installed. Can someone
>
> BTW, maybe I shall mention that modern Linux does not have a directory
> organization similiar to Windows's "Program Files". Our binaries usually
> go in /usr/bin, our libraries in /usr/lib, our configuration files in
> /etc, etc.. We tend to use some packaging system (RPM for Fedora, and
> many others) to keep track of what goes where, and do the management
> (uninstalls, upgrades, etc).
>
> Look at
>
> http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/index.html
>
> and look at some RPM documentation. to get a clearer idea of how it works.
>
> Regards,
>
> Andrey
A couple of good commands to know are
whereis commandname
locate commandname
Both of these will help you find where a particular file is located.
whereis uses a database which is updated using updatedb command.
locate searches your current users paths for the command.
Check out the man page on both for more information.
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Scot L. Harris
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