[Wolves] Linux woes

Ron Wellsted wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk
Tue May 6 11:10:01 2003


On 6 May 2003, Matthew Revell wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> Okay, I went to visit my sister at the weekend and stupidly left my
> laptop up there. She lives in Hull, so I won't be getting my laptop back
> for a while.
>
> This has forced me to use my RH9 only machine. I'm a Linux fan
> (obviously) so this isn't a bad thing, just a scarey thing. Y'see, since
> I swapped CP/M and my Amiga for DOS, then Windows, I've not had to learn
> a new system. I've played around with Linux but now I have no choice but
> to get really stuck in.
>
> So, can anyone tell me where the hell things install to? I downloaded
> the Opera 7.10 RPMs this morning and installed them. Am I stupid to
> expect Opera to now appear in the KDE menu? Okay, I need to read a
> "Linux for not quite stupid people but, hey, okay, you're stupid" book
> but should I fire up BASH and hunt through all the directories 'til I
> find Opera?
>
> Do things installed with apt-get under Debian end up in the menus or do
> you always have to do it manually?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matthew.

"rpm -ql pkgname" lists the contents of the installed package pkgname
while "rpm -qlp pkgname.rpm" lists the files that will be installed from
pkgname.rpm

HTH

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Ron Wellsted
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