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Where are my programs? Note: very new userHello everybody. I decided to instal Debian after I bought a new PC with Vista on it. It's really rather lovely to use and I'm extremely glad to not be using Microsoft anymore. I chose Debian in the end because I liked the whole Mel Gibson with a blue face yelling THREEDUM aspect of it. I've looked at all sorts of wonderful tutorials for tinkering with the terminal, and have acquired a list of codes that work well together for doing various tasks etc. But I think I'm learning to run before I can crawl, because my first question is this: where the hell do installed programmes go? and how do I access them? I use apt-get or the Synaptics thingy to instal programmes and I have no idea where the hell they are. I have looked but I cannot find anything that doesn't already assume you know this online. My second question is similarly disgraceful, and I am going to completely contradict what I wrote in the first paragraph by asking it, because it's regarding the non-free repositories I need to use for making my nvidia card work properly, I put
into my sources.list but it doesn't seem to work. But "http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/non-free/" certainly works with my web browser, so how come aptitude gets confused by it? I also tried the unofficial list from
but it told me it couldn't get the public key. Can anybody help? Bookmark/Search this post with: 
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Where are my programs? Note:
They are mostly inside /usr and it's subdirs. But they can put their stuff elsewhere (/etc for config files, ...). In Debian installation manual should be a description of a general directory structure of a Linux system. If you forgot which programmes did you install, you can also check the list of installed apps in Synaptic. Information about which files go where is also available from the same application.
Where are my programs? Note:
Ah, of course. Thanks.
No response to my second question, though. Perhaps another thread? In any event, here's a bump.
answer
Yes, programs usually get installed in the /usr directory. There are many files in a package which go to different areas depending on their type. Some go to /usr/share/doc/somedirectory because they are documentation. Some files go to /usr/bin because they are programs etc. If you are interested in knowing which files are there in a particular package and where you can open the Synaptic package manager. Right click on the package and select properties. In the tab installed files you can see the files and the path. Seeing a few installed packages you'll be able to know which file it made and where they are!
As for the second in my source list i have typed deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free
and it works. I wonder if the / after debian is the real issue. Try it out. Maybe a path is not getting set because that / is not there.
Don't forget to run apt-get update to get package list. If all goes well the keyring package will also be there and you can install it.
Hope this was of help.
Regards
Hildebrand Victor
Yes it was. Thanks a lot!
Yes it was. Thanks a lot!