Hi,

--- Amachu sriramadas@gmail.com wrote:

say we r installing a software xxxxx.rpm ...

where will it go and instal?

Depends on what xxxxx is. Usually software gets installed in /usr/bin, /usr/sbin. If its a library it can get installed in /usr/lib.

How to find the location of installation?

Just do a whereis on the package name.

whereis lspci

Can we choose it on our own?

Yes. Its usually done only when you are compiling from sources, and when you are testing a particular version release of a software. Some packages are dependencies for other packages. You don't want to disturb the package management build of your distro.

Moreover, when you have auto-installer tools like yum, apt-get, emerge, YaST, its much easier to install software using them than doing it manually.

HTH,

SK

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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