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viga

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Registered: 2007-06-12

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Where does pacman stores downloaded programs?

I am trying to use Grip  but need to find the path for lame  I used pacman -S lame  now i need to link the encoder excutable to the full path were lame was placed by pacman

Thanks

Xyne

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Registered: 2008-08-03

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Re: Where does pacman stores downloaded programs?

Pacman downloads packages to /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ by default. Pacman then unpacks them and installs them on your system. If you need to find the full path to an executable, use the "which" command:

which lame

That will display the full path to lame. To see the full path to all files belonging to lame, you could do this:

pacman -Ql lame

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viga

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Registered: 2007-06-12

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Re: Where does pacman stores downloaded programs?

Nice job.

Thank you

ChoK

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Registered: 2008-10-01

Posts: 346

Re: Where does pacman stores downloaded programs?

also if you want to find anything in your system just type "locate anything" (you may have to run "updatedb" before as root if your files are fairly new)

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