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On Friday 28 January 2005 17:41, Simon Waters wrote:
Anton Channing wrote: | Can anyone explain why: | | Mozilla is installed in the /usr/lib directory | | Firefox is installed in the /etc directory | | and | | Konqueror is installed in the /usr/bin directory? | | I mean, they are all web browsers, so why do they | get installed to different directories? Bad distribution management? Or misunderstanding on your part? I'd vote the second (sorry Anton).
Hey, I don't mind! Really this came about when I was looking for the directories they were in, so I could install a plugin. They all seemed to be in different places.
Under Debian Sarge... srw@xxxxx:~$ type firefox firefox is /usr/bin/firefox srw@xxxxx:~$ type mozilla mozilla is /usr/bin/mozilla srw@xxxxx:~$ type konqueror konqueror is /usr/bin/konqueror
Also under Debian Sarge... chaoshex5:/# type firefox bash: type: firefox: not found chaoshex5:/# type mozilla mozilla is /usr/bin/mozilla chaoshex5:/# type konqueror konqueror is /usr/bin/konqueror So it looks like konqueror is in /usr/bin after all. Although where the actual executable was is not what the plugin wanted to know. It was more about the directory where all its files were kept I suppose. Where it needed to go to be used as a plugin. I found Mozilla because the plugin suggested that directory. Firefox I went searching for and found. I didn't find a directory for Konqueror, but I did find its executable in /usr/bin/ I dunno, the thing I find most confusing about linux is the file structure. Its very esoteric. I'm sure once you become one of the enlightened ones in the inner circle it all makes perfect sense, but its not exactly friendly to the average user. I understand more now than I did, but it seems to be a slow learning curve. Anton -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.