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psilo357
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 Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 1:23 am Post subject: just some general questions |
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for instance, when I am logged in as a user, and i type
where exactly is that python script located? I mean, it somehow knows to run it, so where is it. Also, when you 'install' programs, where do they install to. I am very proficient in windows (sadly) and am quickly picking up linux, so in windows, everything installs to c:/program files/, but what is that in gentoo linux? Some guides on this stuff would be great. Really, im just trying to install hellahella web interface for hellanzb, but have to put scripts at certain places, and need to know where. Also, how do i search my file system, i know you can use 'grep' but don't know what ways to use it, as i have seen it many different ways in guides?
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ZeuZ_NG
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| Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 3:40 am Post subject: |
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The python file: May be in the path, or have a symlink in /usr/bin (this last place, is also where software gets installed, if the software requires some "extra" rights for access, it goes insted to /sbin or /bin/sbin depending on the distro)
Also, what DLL/OCX will be like here in Linux are the libs that are located mainly in /lib
To search in your file system, you can either use find, locate, slocate or another ton of tools to choose.
To view the manual of each, you just need to type "man command" where command gets replaced by the software you want the manual from.
If any further doubts appear, don't hesitate to post them.
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nativemad
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| Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 9:19 am Post subject: |
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The easiest way to find out where something is (when its in the PATH) would be "which"...
You can use it like
and it will show you the path to it...
You could also do it like this:
| Code: | | cat `which hellanzb.py` |
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Carnildo
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| Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 11:04 pm Post subject: |
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| nativemad wrote: | The easiest way to find out where something is (when its in the PATH) would be "which"...
You can use it like
and it will show you the path to it...
You could also do it like this:
| Code: | | cat `which hellanzb.py` |
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The backtick-quoted form is useful when you want to take some action on the result. For example, if you want to know which ebuild installed the "ping" command, you'd do:
| Code: | | equery belongs `which ping` |
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