On 18 May 2010, at 02:18, jay krik wrote: > Then I clicked add more software on the desktop. Package manager came up. In > main pane I selected software I wanted. Window popped up saying updating, > downloading and installing. Completed successfully. did same thing in the > left pane under various topic headings. > But I can NOT find the software anywhere. > windows allow you to name location for saving and installing. Does > OSOL2010.03 or does it have a default location?
Most applications you install with package manager should appear immediately and automatically on the Applications menu. (Sometimes, though, you need to log out and back in -- this is a bug.) Normally, the command that you actually run, or that is run when you select the application on the Applications menu, is found in /usr/bin. Note that software installation on Unix systems is quite different to Windows. There is no single directory in which applications are installed, although there are a number of standard places. If you select a package in the Package Manager, and click the Files tab at the bottom, you will see which files it has installed where. For example, a typical GNOME application on Solaris might install: * The main executable file in /usr/bin * Supporting libraries in /usr/lib * Its Applications menu entry in /usr/share/applications * Some icons in /usr/share/icons/hicolor, or /usr/share/<application-name>/icons * Default settings in /etc/gconf * Development support files in /usr/lib/pkgconfig * Online help in /usr/share/doc * A manual page in /usr/man but that is not an exhaustive list. See <http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html> for some more detailed information about standard Unix directories and their purpose. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Oracle Corporation, Ireland mailto:calum.ben...@oracle.com Solaris Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Oracle Corp. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
