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Being new to Fedora, I just installed a rpm using the following command

yum localinstall ./FoxitReader-1.1-0.fc9.i386.rpm

Now this did the trick and I could launch the app using 

FoxitReader &

Now my question is what if FoxitReader failed to launch the app and the name was something else. How could I find out what the name of launcher file could be that just got installed?

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I usually list out the contents of the RPM and filter it using /bin/. The files in that directory are executable.

$ rpm -ql ImageMagick | grep /bin/
/usr/bin/animate
/usr/bin/compare
/usr/bin/composite
/usr/bin/conjure
/usr/bin/convert
/usr/bin/display
/usr/bin/identify
/usr/bin/import
/usr/bin/mogrify
/usr/bin/montage
/usr/bin/stream
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I am getting package FoxitReader-1.1-0.fc9.i386.rpm is not installed Is that because I used yum localinstall to do the install ? –  Rajeshwar 19 hours ago
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rpm -ql FoxitReader | grep bin/ - don't use the full filename of the RPM. –  garethTheRed 19 hours ago
    
Thanks could you tell me why we did'nt use the full name of the rpm file ? –  Rajeshwar 19 hours ago
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Because different options to the rpm command have different semantics. Some expect the name of an installed package, others that of a physical file. –  tripleee 16 hours ago
    
You can use rpm -qlp FoxitReader-1.1-0.fc9.i386.rpm to list the files in an RPM, rpm -qlf /usr/share/misc/magic to find the other files from an installed package, rpm -qla for all installed files, etc. –  deltab 3 hours ago
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The same for Debian; for an installed package,

dpkg -L <packagename> | grep -F /bin/

dpkg -L lists out the package's contents (basically prints /var/lib/dpkg/info/<packagename>.list) and the grep picks out any file paths containing /bin/.

For a deb file which you have not yet installed,

dpkg-deb -c path/to/filename.deb | grep -F /bin/
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dpkg -S searches packages containing that name. It just happens that packages usually contain a file matching its name. You really want dpkg -L –  Ángel 13 hours ago
    
My bad; thanks for the correction. –  tripleee 12 hours ago
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As several others already have stated, look for "/bin" in the packages file list.

Here's Gentoo

$ equery f firefox | grep bin

equery is part of the package gentoolkit.

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With:

rpm -qlp package.rpm

command you can list files inside a rpm file. Executables probably will be in some bin folder. So:

rpm -qlp package.rpm | grep bin

can work too.

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