RE: [newbie] Applications from CD
On 09-Aug-99 Traci Collins wrote: Hi! The Powerpack release of Mandrake 6.0 includes a CD of personal use and demo applications. There is a folder for each application, inside each folder there is an RPM and a short text file which describes what the program does but not how to launch or use it once the rpm is installed. Is there an FAQ on the application CD somewhere that provides at least terse instructions for launching and using the applications? I have searched around on the Mandrake site and discovered descriptions of each app that match the descriptions on the CD but I haven't found any launching and using instructions anywhere. Probably a silly question but it would be nice to be able to use some of these apps. Use the rpm command to query the package and list all of the files it installs. You'd use rpm -ql name-of-installed-package for a package that's installed, or rpm -qlp filename to query an rpm file. Alternatively you could use kpackage or gnorpm but those are slower than using the command line. That will list every file that the package installs. Look at the list of files; the binary file used to run the program will probably be in a 'bin' directory (like /usr/bin) and the location of help files (if there are any included in the package) will probably be apparent too. I hope that helps you. :) -Tom
Re: [newbie] Applications from CD
"Thomas J. Hamman" wrote: Use the rpm command to query the package and list all of the files it installs. You'd use rpm -ql name-of-installed-package for a package that's installed, or rpm -qlp filename to query an rpm file. Alternatively you could use kpackage or gnorpm but those are slower than using the command line. That will list every file that the package installs. Look at the list of files; the binary file used to run the program will probably be in a 'bin' directory (like /usr/bin) and the location of help files (if there are any included in the package) will probably be apparent too. I hope that helps you. :) I think it will, it gives me a location and a name. You can do a lot with a location and a name GRIN. Thanks. -- Traci Collins, MA Professor of Computer Education Colorado Mountain College http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
