[Fsf-friends] where do the software get installed..?

Vijay Kumar vijaykumar at bravegnu.org
Wed Sep 28 06:03:44 CEST 2005


On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 23:56 +0530, Amachu wrote:
> say we r installing a software xxxxx.rpm ...
> 
> where will it go and instal?

To find out where the files will be installed,

$ rpm -qpl xxxxx.rpm

For an installed package,

$ rpm -ql xxxxx

You can change the installation location using the --prefix 
and --relocate options. For more details 'man rpm'

Vijay


Vijay

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