A REAL NEWBIE QUESTION 1698
vin said the following, on 06-23-06 10:34:
vin Open a terminal and type: echo $PATH That will give you all possible paths where an executable can be installed. That's more or less the "C:-program files" of Linux...
What follows buttumes you know the name of the executable; let's suppose it's 'foo'. Normally, installation packages for your distro will install applications in some standard place; that place may well be in the PATH. If that's the case, then you can find the executable with: which foo entered at a (command) shell prompt. You can see the contents of PATH, the directories which are searched for executables, by entering: echo $PATH
(You will note that '.', the current working directory, is not in the PATH. There is a good, security-related reason for this.)
If you can't find the executable file that way, you can always use the find(1) command. To look for 'foo' in the directory '-usr' and all its subdirectories, enter: findusr -name 'foo' -print
(The '-print' argument is not necessary with GNU 'find'. Have a look at the manual page for find(1) -- it has many options to tailor a search.)
I don't use RH-Fedora, being a Debian sort of guy, so I can't tell you exactly how to create a "shortcut", but I'm sure someone here can. It will depend on which desktop environment you are using: KDE, Gnome, or something else.
-- Rich Gibbs "IF you find yourself in a hole, stop digging." (Will Rogers)
On Friday 23 June 2006 16:34, vin stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.misc...: Okay, first of all, you'll...