RE: RPM installation

"Stewart M. Ives" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.release.enigma
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[email protected] wrote:
> On Fri Mar 21 2003 at 08:48, Galea Gilbert wrote:
> 
>> hi linux gurus,
> 
> (this is an redhat/rpm issue:)
> 
>> yesterday I installed a java rpm from java.sun.com on an enigma box.
>> It installed fine. Now, can I ask you a stupid question? Is there
>> any command that I can use to see where the files were installed?!
>> What I did is I had to do a find / -name *java*, however I'm sure
>> there is a way to locate the installation directory. In fact it was
>> in /usr/java 
> 
> Easy.  Since this was an rpm install, then it will be in the rpm
> database.  If the name of the package was (eg) sun-java, then this
> will show you the header description and what was installed:
> 
> 	rpm -qil sun-java

Tony gave you the easy answer.  Now do a:

	man rpm

and learn all the features of rpm.

stew

> 
>> Best regards,
>> Gilbert
> 
> Cheers
> Tony
> 
> 
> 
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