Questions from a n00b.

[Tsurusennin]

1. I was reading the (apparently outdated) Red Hat docs and found out about a utility called Linuxconf. I started the shell, became root, and typed linuxconf. No effect. Downloaded the RPM and installed it. Tried again. No effect.

2. How do I find out where it was installed? The "find" command yielded nothing.

3. I don't seem to see any objective evidence that I installed 1400 packages with Linux, even though the installer said I did. Where's my stuff?

4. How do I make it so clicking the title bar of a window makes the window maximize, instead of folding into the title bar? (Gnome)

5. I just downloaded Java. It's a bin file, which apparently means "binary." So why does it open in a text editor? How do I get it to execute?

[madcompnerd]

1.) I don't know.
2.) I use the locate command, I can't find it either. It's probly no longer used. Or RedHat replaced it with a graphical version, grrrr...
3.) Open the /lib directory. Not all packages are program's you'll use directly, many of them are shared libraries that other programs are dependent on. Also, your KDE and Gnome menus don't even show all the programs you have. I don't know why, they're lazy maybe?
4.) Right click a window title bar and select configure Window behavior. That's how you do it in KDE, I imagine it's similar in Gnome.
5.) Let's say it's in /root/java.bin, the command is:
/root/java.bin
For some reason, being in /root and typing java.bin doesn't work. I'm not sure why, but always fails for me.

[root.veg]

Is that because the current directory isn't in your PATH?. (by the way, that's normal, and a good security feature). Most people would have to run

./java.bin

when logged in as root for instance.

[lugoteehalt]

1. I was reading the (apparently outdated) Red Hat docs and found out about a utility called Linuxconf. I started the shell, became root, and typed linuxconf. No effect. Downloaded the RPM and installed it. Tried again. No effect.
2. How do I find out where it was installed? The "find" command yielded nothing.



You might try:

$ rpmquery | grep --colour=auto conf

something like that.

Set up slocate's database with

updatedb, or locatu -c -u

whereis linuxconf

whatis linuxconf

apropos linuxconf

echo $PATH

[biz]

linuxconf went buh-bye starting 7.3. Last version with it was 7.2.