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Todd_Z

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From: MA, USA

Registered: 2005-01-31

Posts: 35

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I can never find installed programs!

Whenever I install a program, i can never find the damn thing and of course they dont make my life easy and make the global command be something simple like "zend"  Anywho - any tips?

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Dusty

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From: Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

Registered: 2004-01-18

Posts: 5,986

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Re: I can never find installed programs!

pacman -Ql packagname will say all the files that were installed with that package. Look for something in /usr/bin.  You can also read man locate and man find and man apropos.

Dusty

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FJ

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From: Ontario, Canada

Registered: 2005-03-17

Posts: 75

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Re: I can never find installed programs!

I like to use whereis to find newly installed things.

Bysshe

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Registered: 2004-12-10

Posts: 271

Re: I can never find installed programs!

KDE has a nice little search feature right in the applications list.  I use it alot.

IceRAM

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2004-03-04

Posts: 772

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Re: I can never find installed programs!

I like to use whereis to find newly installed things.

# whereis whereis
whereis: /usr/bin/whereis /usr/man/man1/whereis.1.gz

# pacman -Qo /usr/bin/whereis
/usr/bin/whereis is owned by util-linux 2.12-7

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Kin

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From: Oberfranken / Europe

Registered: 2004-01-23

Posts: 137

Re: I can never find installed programs!

updatedb

locate  PACKAGENAME

Euphoric Nightmare

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From: Kentucky

Registered: 2005-05-02

Posts: 283

Re: I can never find installed programs!

I usually use slocate to find newly installed programs.  Its usually required to run 'slocate -u' to update the list.  However, most of your packages will be installed somewhere in /usr, as that is the 'Arch Way'.

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