Re: Dumb Question: Installing new version of Kopete

[Andrey Andreev <andreev cs helsinki fi>]

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