Hi, 2011/11/1 nick rundy <nru...@hotmail.com>: > And one thing Windows does well is make it > easy to find an executable file (i.e., it's in C:\Program Files\).
This is a joke, right? > Finding > an executable file in Ubuntu is frustrating & lacks organization that makes > sense to users. You may find the "whereis" command useful. Eg., | $ whereis gedit | gedit: /usr/bin/gedit /usr/lib/gedit /usr/share/gedit /usr/share/man/man1/gedit.1.gz Most (99.99%) binaries should be in /usr/bin. Some core binaries are in /bin (for technical reasons) and some system administration binaries may be in /sbin (for historical reasons). I'd be happy about an unification here, but as you can see it's not a trivial matter. In case you installed some application manually, it may be in /usr/local/bin or somewhere in /opt. This is so you can separate distribution stuff from other random stuff. Hope this helps, -- Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals (RainCT) Free Software Developer -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
