basic installation problems

[mayuresh]

hi ppl...
this is kinda very besic question...so asking for you patience...

i've been installing linux and then removing it coz i never had enough hdd space...but now that i have a new 40gig, i want to maintin my current installation for a looooooooooong time and learn more.

Before i could never install any sw properly....but now that i can manage that somehow, i can never figure out where it's getting installed and how i should be runnin g it. One way i found is using the kde package manager and then trying out a few files.....trial and error.
I know i'm missing out somwthing very basic out here, but can't for the life of me figure it out...

thanx ppl

Mayuresh

[Malakin]

After installing a package you can look at the list of files in the package manager, the executable is usually the file in /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin

Or from a command line you can do "rpm -qpl filename.rpm" and that will list all the files that the rpm installs, or you could add " | grep bin" to the end to mostly just see files placed in a bin directory.

[bdg1983]

If you install a package specificially for KDE, then it will usually add an entry to your KDE menu.

If not, then do as idealego suggested and find out what the executable is. Shouldn't be too hard to find.

You can then use the KDE menu editor and add it to your menu. There's documentation included with KDE that tells how to do this and you can also read them at www.kde.org (http://www.kde.org)

[mayuresh]

thank guys ...wil give it a try now...
just one more doubt though...

during installation i did not install gnome...and when i went to install it of my cd's he gave me a big list of libraries i needed. How do i procure these libraries and is there any way i can install all the libraries needed so that this problem would not arise the next time...

tia

regards
Mayuresh