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Title: Says installed, but can't find or run
Post by: destructa on May 27, 2005, 09:59:47 PM

I'm very new to linux (2 days).  I'm using Mandriva 2005 LE and I downloaded the Mandriva RPM and it's says it's already installed.  

Can't find it.  How do I run it?  If it's not installed, how do I do it.

Please VERY simple instructions, still getting my head around linux.

Also is Mandriva the best linux to use?

Title: RE: Says installed, but can't find or run
Post by: Ateo on May 27, 2005, 10:22:59 PM

Greetings...

There's a couple of things you can try out.. Open up a console window (that's sorta like a dos window). Do the following command which hopefully outputs something useful:

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~ $ whereis amuleYou should get something similar to this:

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dracco@epitaph dracco $ whereis amule
amule: /usr/bin/amule /usr/X11R6/bin/amule /usr/bin/X11/amule /usr/man/man1/amule.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/amule.1.gzWe're looking for the amule binary (executable) which, in my example, is the one with "bin" in the path.

If you get nothing, it did not install or it just didn't install correctly. If you do get a path to the binary, try executing the amule binary with the entire path. If that works, you need to add that path (/usr/bin in my example) to your system user profile defined in ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile, depending on distribution.

Title: Re: Says installed, but can't find or run
Post by: deltaHF on May 27, 2005, 10:52:37 PM

just type amule as user in your console ..

cheers

Title: Re: Says installed, but can't find or run
Post by: Ateo on May 29, 2005, 01:38:52 AM

Or what delta said. Sorry for going overboard.. hehe..

Title: Re: Says installed, but can't find or run
Post by: destructa on May 29, 2005, 12:48:51 PM

Got it working.  I installed Fedora Core 3 instead of Mandriva.  I updated FC3 with every update going.  Installed it, and now it works!!!!