Guest Highnezz Posted July 5, 2006 Report Share Posted July 5, 2006 HI I've just migrated from windows so its pretty confusing... i am using mandriva 2006.0 and i'm wondering where the program files folder is... its because i tried installing xmms rpm package and it doesnt seem to show on the menu.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted July 5, 2006 Report Share Posted July 5, 2006 Just press alt+F2 and type in xmms To make it appear in your system menus, run drakmenu Directory and file structure on Linux is completely different than in windows. Most executables are located in /usr/bin although it can also be located in /usr/local/bin or in /bin or somewhere in /opt ... it depends on the type of applications. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dexter11 Posted July 5, 2006 Report Share Posted July 5, 2006 In Linux or in any Unix variants files are stored in the directory structure according to their role e.g. binary executables are stored in /usr/bin , config files in /etc , documentation in /usr/share/doc etc. Search for the file system hyerarchy standard in Google if you want more details. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilia_kr Posted July 5, 2006 Report Share Posted July 5, 2006 Look here, a great site about linux for beginners and intermediate users. linux file system: http://www.linux.org/lessons/beginner/l4/lesson4b.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r_balest Posted July 6, 2006 Report Share Posted July 6, 2006 guys, i want to ask few things about this, actually... how do i know what kind of that application. I mean, sometimes, I installed few softwares, and it shows up in the menu, sometimes, it doesnt... when it doesn't show up, i begin to confuse.. where to execute it... i've tried typing "drakmenu", but nothing happened... Also, can i add a network shared printer? I'm using Mandriva 2006... thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted July 6, 2006 Report Share Posted July 6, 2006 In 2006 it is menudrake. Cheers. John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted July 6, 2006 Report Share Posted July 6, 2006 Yep, menudrake, system/configuration/other/menudrake. Then just hit the save option and they'll appear. Or log out and back in again. In relation to where your programs go, you can use a few commands to find out. Open a console prompt and then: whereis packagename where packagename is xmms or whatever you installed. It should list where it is. Another alternative is to do this: rpm -qa | grep xmms or replace xmms with whatever you installed. It will list a package to so you can check if it's installed. If it is, then you can do: rpm -ql xmms and it will tell you where all the files are. Normally the whereis command is far easier and will work in most examples. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laiback Posted July 6, 2006 Report Share Posted July 6, 2006 In relation to where your programs go, you can use a few commands to find out. Open a console prompt and then: whereis packagename I didn't know this so am grateful to read the info. However, unless you know the exact name of the files you don't get a response, and they don't appear to be obvious, i.e. my Acrobat reader isn't called Acrobat anything, it's acroread. Using the * wild card doesn't work, with or without quotes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dexter11 Posted July 6, 2006 Report Share Posted July 6, 2006 (edited) You can look in the software uninstaller utility for installed packages. If you switch to detailed view and scroll down in the description window you can see the files which were installed by that package. Now a few posts before me and scarecrow wrote that executables go to /usr/bin. So if you see in the filelist something like /usr/bin/prgstart then you know that by typing prgstart in the command prompt you can launch that program. Edited July 6, 2006 by dexter11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r_balest Posted July 7, 2006 Report Share Posted July 7, 2006 guys, it's happening again :( i installed videolan client and i don't even know where to run it.. i've searched the remove program, or /usr/bin...but nothing said videolan..i typed videolan, nothing happened too... am i missing something here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted July 7, 2006 Report Share Posted July 7, 2006 (edited) alt+F2 and vlc Updating your system menus via "menudrake" from time to time is a good idea. Everything installed WILL eventually appear, if it's grabbed from a regular Mandriva repository. Edited July 7, 2006 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dexter11 Posted July 7, 2006 Report Share Posted July 7, 2006 How about typing vlc? What did you do in the remove software utility? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r_balest Posted July 12, 2006 Report Share Posted July 12, 2006 ugh... I just cant find my videolan... i´m getting desperate by this... or am i downloading the wrong version? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r_balest Posted July 12, 2006 Report Share Posted July 12, 2006 okay, the latest one, i installed AVG for linux.. finally, i got a success installing message. but still, i can´t run the executable files... :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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