Where is the rest of it?

[Scithe]

Hey all,

I installed Fedora (my first linux ever) 2 days ago. I chose to do a custom install and I installed everything that was available(6.7gb worth). Now that it's installed I don't see all the programs that I installed.

A few of the programs in particular were the compilers and interpreters. For instance, gcc the C++ compiler is not any where to be seen. I did a search and it finds a bunch of rlated files in my usr folder but no executable program.

Please help this newbie out! Thank you

[Bear Knuckle]

1. gcc is the C-compiler, g++ the C++-compiler

2. The executable should be at /usr/bin/gcc

[Dewey]

use

whereis <program name here>

And you'll get a printout of where to execute the file from, for instance

[dewey@fedora ~]$ whereis fdisk
fdisk: /sbin/fdisk /usr/share/man/man8/fdisk.8.gz

[ilja]

do a

rpm -qa |less

this will give you a list of all applications installed.
Some of them can be only accessed as root, when you identify yourself with the command

su -

(don't forget the - ). And see the file /root/install.log e.g. with the command

su -
less /root/install.log

for packages that were installed succefully and for packages whose installation failed.

[Scithe]

well I looked in my /usr/bin/ folder and saw an icon called "g++" I also saw a bunch of others. The icons had blue gears. I double clicked a few of them and none executed at all.

[ilja]

Welcome in the world of the console
http://www.cs.wm.edu/cspages/computi...orial/gpp.html

[Scithe]

oh! so it's installed but doesn't have a gui then? just run from the command line!

Wow thanks, I'm such a newbie. I really need to read all the help files hehe.

[ilja]

To get a gui, use an IDE like anjuta or kdevelop. They have the "compile" option. And yes reading the help files is a good idea