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Can't find RPM package I just installed
Name: Andy Date: February 19, 2001 at 15:16:21 Pacific
Comment:
I installed RealPlayer 7.0 using the RpmDrake. Now I can't find RealPlayer. The install went fine. I actually saw RealPlayer pop up after the install. Now I can't find it to use it again. It is not in Multimedia graphics or video. I entered Realplayer in the RUN command. Couldn't find it. Please help.
Name: malkowich Date: February 19, 2001 at 15:44:22 Pacific
Reply:
I think the command is "realplay" and not "realplayer"...and ofcourse there is no link in the 'shortcuts' 'coz the install doesn't do that, u have to do it manually.
good luck
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Response Number 2
Name: James Date: February 19, 2001 at 19:37:15 Pacific
Reply:
You may always try "whereis" as in "whereis realplay".
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Response Number 3
Name: Ryan Cooley Date: February 19, 2001 at 20:24:44 Pacific
Reply:
whereis is only good if the application has already been indexed by the whereis database. The best way to find anything on your hard drive, find / -iname realplay
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Response Number 4
Name: marsd Date: February 20, 2001 at 01:19:23 Pacific
Reply:
Are you asking if it was installed or where it is? rpm -q for th former, find / -type f -name real(whatever, play, player) for the latter- I think that you should search /usr.
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Response Number 5
Name: james Date: February 20, 2001 at 13:03:31 Pacific
Reply:
Ryan,
Whereis just searches the "usual" directories for a binary and does not index any files. There is a high likelyhood if rpm installed it using defaults it will be there. Find will work but is over kill and for that find -type f -name "real*" would be better as a generalized search but as I said overkill. If Realplay got silly and did not stick realplay in a usual place then use rpm as it was designed to. if you know the package. rpm -lq gawk-3.0.5-21
or hunt is down with rpm -qa | sort | less
rpm does maintain a database unlike whereis
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Response Number 6
Name: snoozer Date: February 20, 2001 at 21:49:53 Pacific
Reply:
The default install for replayer8 is /usr/lib/replayer8. If you ever have trouble finding a program you just installed, they usually install into /usr/lib or /usr/bin if I can't find a program I have installed I check these 2 folders and 9 times out of 10 they are there.
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