[SOLVED] Where are the softwares installed??

[diwas]

When I install any packages where does it gets "installed into" (by default)?
I mean is it the /home folder?? Or somewhere else?

Helps appreciated.
Thank you.

[SunnyRabbiera]

Usually linux apps are installed into usr/bin or usr/lib depending.
Games are intalled under usr/games.
Your home directory is for personal files, it contains no real applications unless you untar a app like firefox off the web or something like that.
The home directory is more like my documents under windows then anything else.

[bpowell2005]

When I install any packages where does it gets "installed into" (by default)?
I mean is it the /home folder?? Or somewhere else?

Helps appreciated.
Thank you.

That's a loaded question! Generally, the executable part of the program ends up in /bin...but there are all kinds of exceptions. I'm told the linux file system is more logical that Windows...I believe it, I'm just still not used to how it works.

Configuration files / directories of installed programs will reside in the /home directory of the user...so you'll see lots of configuration files in your home directory (they're generally hidden) if you do a ls -ah (list files, attributes hidden)

[okey666]

I think the software gets installed into many places.
This is the locations of various files instaled by an opera deb:

usr/share/opera/svg-sabd.dat
usr/share/opera/svg-se.dat
usr/share/opera/svg-sebd.dat
usr/share/opera/encoding.bin
usr/share/icons/
usr/share/icons/hicolor/
usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/
usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/
usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/opera.png
usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/
usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/
usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/opera.png
usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/
usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/
usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/opera.png
usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/
usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/
usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/opera.png
usr/share/doc/
usr/share/doc/opera/
usr/share/doc/opera/copyright
usr/share/doc/opera/LGPL.gz
usr/share/doc/opera/changelog.gz
usr/share/man/
usr/share/man/man1/
usr/share/man/man1/opera.1.gz
usr/share/applications/
usr/share/applications/opera.desktop
usr/share/pixmaps/
usr/share/pixmaps/opera.xpm
usr/share/menu/
usr/share/menu/opera
usr/lib/
usr/lib/opera/
usr/lib/opera/plugins/
usr/lib/opera/9.51/
usr/lib/opera/9.51/missingsyms.so
usr/lib/opera/9.51/spellcheck.so
usr/lib/opera/9.51/opera
usr/lib/opera/9.51/works
usr/lib/opera/9.51/operaplugincleaner
usr/lib/opera/9.51/operapluginwrapper
usr/lib/opera/9.51/operapluginwrapper-native
usr/lib/opera/9.51/operapluginwrapper-ia32-linux
usr/bin/
usr/bin/opera
etc/
etc/opera6rc.fixed
etc/opera6rc

[SunnyRabbiera]

I think the software gets installed into many places.
This is the locations of various files instaled by an opera deb:

Technically yes, but the main application usually goes into usr/bin.

[The Titan]

if you go to the package in synaptic and right click there is an option like view installed files or something like that, sorry, i havent used gnome in a while =|. But that is useful for finding where an application installed too....

[diwas]

Oh damn. I actually upgraded my harddrive today...and my Filesystem is like arnd 5GEGS. So i wanted to increase the size without formattin and reinstalling it.

Is there anyway to do that??

[SunnyRabbiera]

if you go to the package in synaptic and right click there is an option like view installed files or something like that, sorry, i havent used gnome in a while =|. But that is useful for finding where an application installed too....

Indeed.
Open up synaptic located under system > administration > synaptic package manager
after that go to "settings" and then to "preferences" and in the "general" tab put a check in the first box and hit "apply".
Easy

[diwas]

??

[SunnyRabbiera]

??

That is how you can find out where crap is downloaded to when you use your installer.