Steve Logan wrote:
Thanks to all who replied to my earlier Samba question...
Having had to interrupt my messing about to do some Proper Work for
the last couple of weeks I'm back in Hopeless Newbie mode (hereafter
contracted to HoNe) and have another batch of (probably trivial)
questions. and yes I really have tried to RTFM.
Here's what I've got:
- a boxed copy of Suse 9.1 which I bought ages ago and have finally
installed on a Del PIII 500 with 768MB RAM and a couple of IBM 80GB
drives.
- Suse manuals for 9.1
- a copy of Suse 9.3 from Linux Something mag this month
- a bunch of Oreilly books on Apache.
Where I'm having problems:
- Conceptual #1. I'm struggling to figure out where Suse/Linux puts
things. On XP, on the whole, programs are installed (by default) in
c:\Program Files, dlls etc in C:\Windows and subdirs, user data in
C:\Documents and settings\User\ and sub dirs. Is there a direct Linux
equivalent? And I'm beginning to think that Suse ain't the same as
Redhat? Can you give me a HoNe Rule Of Thumb for where to find stuff?
*Disclaimer* I do not use Suse too much. However, these are the basics
that can work on most RPM distros
Usually, programs go into /usr/bin. Sometimes, you will find them in
/bin or /usr/local/bin, depending on various issues that are too long
winded to explain here :)
However, you will also find network servers (called daemons) installed
in /usr/sbin, as well as some system utilities, again depending.....
- Conceptual #2. Being a big Firefox fan I downloaded the RPM from
mozilla.org to my desktop (as root) and ran it. It seems to have
installed in a directory under the desktop, which, I suspect, isn't
correct. Where should I have put it so that all users can run it?
Strange! What you can do, is open a command prompt and type
rpm -q -a | grep -i firefox
This command quries (-q) the RPM database for all (-a) installed
packages, with the grep bit only showing the firefox rpm. -i is for case
insensitive
Then, you can type
rpm -q -l <Firefox package name>
where firefox package name is the name that was given in the first
command. This will list all the files installed by the firefox RPM and
where they are.
- I installed Webmin (sort of), ie I downloaded the RPM and double
clicked on it. I suspect that I've got another of these strange
'where are things supposed to be' problems because Webmin can't find
my Apache 2 install (which I did directly from YaST from the CDs).
So, two things (a) is Webmin a Good Thing? (b) What do I need to do to
get it working (that's probably a dumb question! I have tried using
YaST to install the Webmin from the CD set but YaST appears to bomb
out without doing anything).
repeat the above, except replace firefox with apache to find out where
that is and then webmin to find out where RPM has put that
HoNe Q1: How do I uninstall apps?
rpm -e <package name>
Or, i suspect YAST will have a listing of all packages installed and you
can remove from there
HoNe Q2: I've got this Suse 9.3 from the Linux mag. Can I 'install'
that over what I've got? Will I lose anything (eg YaST online update
or similar? I'm hazy as to what I get for paying fifty quid for the
boxed version of 9.1 vs the free versions)
hmmm. To be honest, I prefer clean installs rather than upgrades. You
can never be sure what will go on during an upgrade. And since you paid
for 9.1, I would keep that on for just now (just _my_ preference ;)
I'll stop now 'cos life is too short but there's more! (Apache Tomcat
etc etc)...
Thanks for any assistance...
Good luck
Iain
Ta
Steve
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