Where Linux installs the software

Use this command below:
Mysqladmin-u root-p variables

Root is your database account
You will be prompted to enter the password, enter the password for the account that is filled in above

Enter after a large table, find DataDir this line, the value behind the database is the path.

1. If the source is installed, you can use-prefix to specify the installation path, so that you can easily know the installation path of the software;

2. If the RPM package is installed, you can use Rpm-qal to check it.
It's generally installed in/usr/share and/usr/local.

You can find the file location in the system by Whereis the software name.

For example, if you want to find the eclipse file, then:

[Email protected] ~]# Whereis eclipse
Will show:
Eclipse:/usr/bin/eclipse/usr/lib/eclipse/usr/share/eclipse

There are a lot of ways, you can try it yourself.