[Wolves] Linux woes

[Matthew Revell]

Cheers for that. It told me that the package wasn't installed, so I then
looked in the directory that it told me it _would_ be installed in and
it was there! Well, something was there, I couldn't find an executable
file but I think that's down to the vagaries of Opera's installation.

Cheers. 

On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 11:09, Ron Wellsted wrote:
> 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