[Mapserver-users] Install help

[Siki Zoltan]

Hi,
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Ethan Granger wrote:

> Thank you for your responses.  Again I am new to linux and I apologize if
> my questions are basic.  One of the challenges that I have had with 
> linux is figuring out WHERE stuff is.  Are all of my necessary mapserver 
> libraries going to be in the /usr folder?  Is there a command that will 
> tell me where my applications/libraries are located?  I would prefer 
> that my system has only one install of each file.  If there is a good
> reference that can give me a better understanding of the linux file 
> structure perhaps that would be a good place for me to start.
> 

For RPMs you can use gnorpm, xrpm, kpackage to discover the installed
rpm packages through Xwindows GUI (menus, buttons, etc).
Usually packages are in /usr.
You can find command to look for files, see man find.

Cheers Zoltan