Dumb Question: Installing new version of Kopete

[Scot L. Harris]

On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 12:38, Andrey Andreev wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Jo O'Connor wrote:
> 
> > However, I'm too dumb to figure out how to install this, as I can't even 
> > figure out where my current version of Kopete is installed.  Can someone 
> 
> BTW, maybe I shall mention that modern Linux does not have a directory 
> organization similiar to Windows's "Program Files". Our binaries usually 
> go in /usr/bin, our libraries in /usr/lib, our configuration files in 
> /etc, etc.. We tend to use some packaging system (RPM for Fedora, and 
> many others) to keep track of what goes where, and do the management 
> (uninstalls, upgrades, etc).
> 
> Look at
> 
> http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/index.html
> 
> and look at some RPM documentation. to get a clearer idea of how it works.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Andrey

A couple of good commands to know are

whereis  commandname
locate commandname

Both of these will help you find where a particular file is located. 
whereis uses a database which is updated using updatedb command.

locate searches your current users paths for the command.

Check out the man page on both for more information.

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Scot L. Harris
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