Find out where something is installed?

Ax. · Post by **Ax.** » Fri Feb 12, 2010 12:35 pm

How do I find out where something is installed? The whereis command only return this:

$ whereis emesense
emesense:

remoulder · Post by **remoulder** » Fri Feb 12, 2010 12:37 pm

Try locate

Leppie · Post by **Leppie** » Fri Feb 12, 2010 12:43 pm

Ax. wrote:How do I find out where something is installed? The whereis command only return this:

$ whereis emesense
emesense:

if you're looking for an executable, use which:

which emesene

should return something like this:

/usr/bin/emesene

Ax. · Post by **Ax.** » Fri Feb 12, 2010 1:09 pm

Thanks!

The "which"-command worked great!

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