On Sun, 22 Dec 2002, Chris wrote:

> How do I know where software goes when I install it?
> For instance, I just installed Opera on Red Hat 8.0, and
> had to dig around to find it.
>  From the root I ran "ls -al -R | grep opera"
> This produced about 16,000 items!  Through trial and error I was
> able to find the executable, and create a "launcher" on my desktop
> to it.
>
> Next I installed Wine.  I still have no idea where the executable is, but I
> know it's not in my path.  Running "ls -al -R | grep wine" produces even
> more results than when I looked for Opera.
>
> Is there a default location for software installations via RPMs?
>
> Thank you,
> Chris

It is up to the rpm packager.

rpm -ql opera | less
rpm -ql wine

to restrict the output to executables, I guess something like this would
do:

rpm -ql <package name> | grep '/bin/'

Lawson

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