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  From: Andrew Harwood <aaharwood@bigpond.com>
  To  : LinuxSA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 18:23:42 +1030

Re: What's on my system?

on 12/12/2000 17:12, Brian Astill at brian.astill@flinders.edu.au wrote:

> Like many others, I booted from my RH6.2 CDROM, commenced the install process,
> selected Gnome Workstation and (more or less) let Mr RedHat get on with it.
> 
> So how do I know what apps are on my system?
> (I've looked for an install log, but can't find one)

Hmm, it's normally in /tmp/install.log. However, if you don't move it soon,
the cron job that automatically clears out old stuff from /tmp gets rid of
it. (I know, it's happened to me :)

> Even if I can find a list of installed apps, how would I know what they were
> for?  (recent example - I was introduced to a super command line ftp thingo
> called "wget", which was on my system but whose name meant next to nothing at
> first glance)
> 
> Clues, anyone?

Nope. I have the same problem. My solution is to try running the program
with options like -help and see what they tell me.

-- 
Andrew Harwood
aaharwood@bigpond.com

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