When an Application is installed using "yum install", How to find out the Directory structure into which it was installed?

[Jerry Feldman]

On 04/24/2011 11:07 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Varuna Seneviratna writes:
>
>> In Windows the set-up displays the the directory into which an
>> application was installed and most of the installation instructions
>> display the Directory structure into which the Application ultimately
>> gets installed.But How to Find the Linux or Fedora 14 Directory
>> structure into which an application is installed, using "yum install
>> <packgNme>"
>>
>> For an Ex- yum install "openJDK*"
>
> rpm -q -l -v <packagename>
>
>
In addition. Windows generally installs applications in C:\Program
File\<application name>
In Linux and Unix, application executables are normally installed in
/usr/bin with application libraries in /usr/lib (or /usr/lib64).
Additionally, some systems may be installed in /opt. Additionally, if
installing an application from a tarball, that application is normally
installed in /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/lib (or lib64). Normally if
you use Yum or RPM, then /usr/bin is the normal place.

Additionally, if you want to find out where an executable is, use the
whereis(1) command as an example:
[gaf at gaf ~]$ whereis firefox
firefox: /usr/bin/firefox /usr/lib64/firefox
/usr/share/man/man1/firefox.1.gz



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