I'm kinda new to linux, i have a small distribution called Vector Linux, and i'm not doing TOO bad, but even back when i had redhat, i could NOT install software! how do i do it? like i can do RPM -i and it tells me that it installs it, but i dont know where it installs it to! how do i find my installations? i've installed so much but i cannot find any of it....HELP!

Try # whereis programname so to see where perl runs from for example you would type # whereis perl Let me know if this doesn't find what you were installing...

For what I used to find what I have installed and where I have installed it: For example if I want to find mozilla 1) rpm -qa | grep mozilla mozilla-1.4.i386.RPM 2) rpm -ql mozilla-1.4.i386.RPM /usr/bin/mozilla /usr/lib/mozilla.so . . . .

I agree with sammol, but you might want to change one thing and that's not putting the version number and i386.RPM portion on the end [only do this when installing a package (rpm -i or -u), as the filename will likely include that info.] Do as he says, though, and do an rpm -qa|grep "packagename", but don't enter the extra info when doing the rpm -ql. For instance: # rpm -qa|grep "mozilla" mozilla-1.0.1-24 # rpm -ql mozilla This should yield the files included with that package. Good luck.