Sunday, January 8, 2012

See Where a Package is Installed on Ubuntu

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http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubuntu/see-where-a-package-is-installed-on-ubuntu/

 

See Where a Package is Installed on Ubuntu

Once you use the apt-get utility to install a package, sometimes it seems to disappear into nowhere. You know it's installed, you just have no idea where.

If you know the name of the executable, you can use the which command to find the location of the binary, but that doesn't give you information on where the supporting files might be located.

There's an easy way to see the locations of all the files installed as part of the package, using the dpkg utility.

dpkg -L <packagename>

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