On Monday 22 May 2006 10:37 pm, Duncan Anderson wrote: > On Monday, 22 May 2006 22:27, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > > On Monday 22 May 2006 10:05 pm, Duncan Anderson wrote: > > > If you ever need to find the executables > > > > Just open a console (or xterm) and type in the first few characters and > > hit <TAB> for auto-completion. > > In this case just "oo" and then <TAB> would do. > > > > To get the complete path: "which oowriter" or whatever command you need. > > Of course, that is the way to find executables that are in the > environmentally defined search path. What I was suggesting was a quick and > easy way of looking at the locations of files belonging to a particular > package, and not necessarily just the executables. (The package does not > need to be installed, either) Of course one could also run "rpm -ql > <packagename>" for a similar result, without the navigability.
Wasn't actually telling you how and what to do ....your mail just offered the oportune comment. ;-) OTOH I always use "urpmi" which means I don't keep a local copy of installed RPMS (if all goes well, that is) by default and thus can't check 'em that way. I could, using "mcc" and/or the packagemanager "gurpmi" but find it a very clunky and slow way to do things. Somebody else pointed out the use of "locate" which has the downer of needing to use "updatedb" first, whilst "find" feels like using a sledgehammer to kill a mosquito. -- Good luck, HarM ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
