durvish Posted October 5, 2003 Report Share Posted October 5, 2003 Newbie here, Just downloadd 9.1 and had a perfect install and update. Then I downloaded Yahoo Messenger .rpm and right clicked it for the install option ---- Mandrake says it installed fine, but I can't find it! Is this usual for Mandrake or should it have installed and added an icon to the desktop? durvish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezroller Posted October 5, 2003 Report Share Posted October 5, 2003 I have no experience with yahoo messenger, but it is rare that an installed program puts an icon on the desktop. in fact, I'm not sure if I've ever seen that. If you are in kde or gnome, go to the "start" area of the bottom bar, and go to networking/instant messenging. do you see it there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezroller Posted October 5, 2003 Report Share Posted October 5, 2003 you may wanna try gaim out too. it handles yahoo just fine. as well as many other IM clents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
durvish Posted October 5, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 5, 2003 nope I got nothing ---- it did the same thing to me for panda anti-virus --- mandrake said it installed but i can't it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zenrox Posted October 5, 2003 Report Share Posted October 5, 2003 this is wot i did open up gnorpm and find the package thare then do a verfy to get a list of whare it installed the files Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezroller Posted October 5, 2003 Report Share Posted October 5, 2003 well, we can see where those things installed to by doing this in a terminal as root: updatedb locate yahoo that will tell you where the program installed to. It is likely that many will be returned, so if you wanna paste the return from that command, we'll see where we can go from there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted October 5, 2003 Report Share Posted October 5, 2003 This is not meant to offend you and I'm sorry if it does. (I had this problem at first, too) One thing one has to get over is the Windows mindset. "Hey, I can just click on an installation program and it'll clutter my desktop with more icons." In Linux, the GUI is totally separate from the OS, so when someone writes software and packages it, they have no idea what desktop environment you are using so they can install icons for you. They wouldn't waste time with adding subroutines to test for all possibilities, either. Anyway, nine times out of ten, after installing an RPM, there will be an item added to your 'Start' menu in the correct submenu. IM proggies might be: Networking -> Instant Messaging (or Chat). Sometimes, maybe they don't. Sometimes it takes logging out of X and back in to see it. A quick way to find where the executable went is: rpm -ql name-of-package-without-the-rpm-extension That lists all the files it creates. You can also do rpm -ql name-of-package-without-the-rpm-extension | grep bin to weed out everything but the executables, because most of the time the executables go in /bin, /usr/bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin, /usr/local/bin, blahblahblah. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted October 6, 2003 Report Share Posted October 6, 2003 If you can't remember the full name of the rpm you might find the following handy: rpm -qa | grep -i yahoo which will tell you the name of the rpm, minus the rpm extension Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
durvish Posted October 6, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2003 'k so I went on the great file search (which I needed to do anyway so I can get used to the Linux file system)and I found Yahoo all nicely packed in a file. Once I ran the exe it stuck an icon on the desktop (but sadly not in the start tree). Then I found the panda software --- but it was in Spanish! Since I was just going to try it out I'll just uninstall and find another app. Thanks for all the help guys --- I'm feeling a little more comfy with Linux now due to this so it all worked out in the end! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezroller Posted October 6, 2003 Report Share Posted October 6, 2003 glad we could help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tons Posted October 6, 2003 Report Share Posted October 6, 2003 I use kpackage for these things. Use the search button to find the package and you get a description and a list of the installed files. Handy is the option to click on a file (eg README) and view it´s content. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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