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The softwares are usually installed in bin folders, in /usr/bin, /home/user/bin and many other places, a nice starting point could be the find command to find the executable name, but it’s usually not a single folder. The software could have components and dependencies in lib,bin and other folders.
How do I find installed programs on Linux?
Open the terminal application or log in to the remote server using ssh (e.g. ssh [email protected] ) Run command apt list —installed to list all installed packages on Ubuntu. To display a list of packages satisfying certain criteria such as show matching apache2 packages, run apt list apache.
How do I find where a program is installed?
Here are the steps:
- Open Start menu.
- Now right-click on the program, access More, and select Open file location.
- The Program folder will open and program shortcut will be selected.
- Right-click on that shortcut.
- Select the Open file location option.
