Rpm installation problem

[Dave Dittrich]

On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Doug McLean wrote:

> That is a good point, but it still doesn't seem to install files. For 
> example I tried to install the Pine rpm so I could use pico (yes vi is 
> powerful, but I can't use it very well  Pico is my friend), and after I did 
> that, I still couldn't use Pico.  This also applies to xscreensaver as well 
> as a couple other rpms i tried to install from my Cd.  They all looked like 
> the installed ok, but I didn't see the software I installed anywhere.
> 
> --Doug

Are you doing "rehash" to rebuild the hash table in the shell?  Are you
sure the directory in which the binary is installed is in your $PATH
(use "whereis pico" and "echo $PATH" and make sure your shell knows to
look for the file).  Also, read the rpm man page so you know how to
query it to tell if you really *did* install things, where, etc.

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