Hi, I need help with my rpm's, when I install them they say they have completed, but then I cant find where they were installed to. In fact there is no indacation that they were even installed on the system. When I looked at the add/remove program thing they wern't listed under that either. So clearly I am missing something. Now I am a TOTAL NEWBIE, I don't know any commands I just want to know where all my programs are.

try using rpmquery packagename to see if it really got installed to run the program just type the program name if you dont know the full name of the program just type the first few letters then press tab - the system should then give a list of all programs starting with those letters most of the programs you install are in /usr/local/bin /usr/bin/ /bin /sbin /usr/sbin

At a command prompt, enter this: # rpm -ql packagename That will list all the files installed as part of the rpm, such as "rpm -ql wine", and you may want to pipe it to more, such as "rpm -ql wine|more". What's this add/remove program thing (sounds like Windows)? Good luck.

Pretty much all of the executable files under linux are binaries and like deity_me said are likely to be installed in one of the following locations: /usr/local/bin / usr/bin/ /bin etc. You can use the grep command to search through the output from rpm -ql to narrow it down, eg: $ rpm -ql packagename | grep bin | less

have you done a man rpm?? look in the man page for rpm -qil "packagename" the simplest and most comprehensive way to search for a package is rpm -qa|grep -i "part of package name" e.g., rpm -qa|grep -i xfree

havnt used redhat in a while ---got sick of the rpm mess i use debian now but maybe redhat 9 has kpackage still if it does its a graphic package management program