Where are the installed programs??

**raziiq** · June 17th, 2009

Where are all installed programs placed in uBuntu? Like we have installed programs in Windows under Program Files.

**Celauran** · June 17th, 2009

That's not how it works in Linux. Installed programs don't occupy one directory. For instance, /etc/ contains the configuration files for all programs, while the executables themselves may be installed to /usr/bin

**raziiq** · June 17th, 2009

/usr/bin thats what i was asking, thanks for the info man

**Mark Phelps** · June 17th, 2009

Originally Posted by raziiq

/usr/bin thats what i was asking, thanks for the info man

He said "may" be installed to /usr/bin.

There's also /usr/local/bin, and /usr/sbin -- and others I don't recall at the moment. Also, it's fairly typical for apps to created hidden directories under your /home directory and store files and settings there.

Basically, there's no one directory where ALL the application programs get saved in Linux.

**m_duck** · June 17th, 2009

If you want to find the location of a specific executable, you can use the which command.

Code:

which firefox

for example, will return

Code:

/usr/bin/firefox

**Paqman** · June 17th, 2009

It's also worth pointing out that in Linux you don't need to know the path to the executable to launch it.

For example, Firefox may be at /usr/bin/firefox, but to launch it you only need to use the command

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