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[mmills]

I installed some networking software "finger" and im not finding a location icon to use the program, how do I find this program.

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[JamminJoeyB]

Try running it from a terminal.

How did you install it? What is your wm/de?

We need a bit more information to give accurate help.

[danscript]

The last post is right, we need some more info.

If it won't run from the terminal by typing the program name try the command below to find the location and run it from the same directory.

find / -name <prog_name>

example... find / -name shutdown ... would return something similar
/sbin/shutdown

[mdwatts]

'finger' is a commandline program that you can run with additional options so it will not be added to your menus.

Most distros include 'finger' as part of it's base install.

# whereis finger
finger: /usr/bin/finger /usr/share/man/man1/finger.1.gz

[mmills]

I installed it straight off of the package selection from the SUSE 9.0 Pro cd, there are some applications that I have installed that I have no clue where they are in my system, altho I am 3 weeks without windows I am slowly learning......

anyways so I should be able to go to my command line "shell" and type in finger
and the program should open correct?

now if I type in finger -s will this tell me exactly where in the file system it is located?

I am still working on my CompTia Linux+

mmills

[serz]

If you don't know where things are, try to locate them using either the locate or the find command. You also have the which command, which will output the first binary it finds in your $PATH.

which finger

You can also check everything X package installed.

I think it was rpm -ql package | less

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by mmills

now if I type in finger -s will this tell me exactly where in the file system it is located?


I already gave you the command to find finger.

# whereis finger
finger: /usr/bin/finger /usr/share/man/man1/finger.1.gz

And that is also from SuSE 9.0 Pro.

Looks like you've got a lot of reading to do.

http://www.scorpioncity.com/linux.html

http://www.dsl.org/cookbook/

http://www.tldp.org/

http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/LinuxGuide/linux-basics.html