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Posted by Juan Uribe
Juan Uribe
Courses Plus Student 135 Points

Installing On terminal

When installing such as vagrant onto my computer I type in vagrant -v which provides me with the information of too wether or not vagrant is installed but how do I get more information as to in which directory and more of a particular install through the command line??

Tabatha Trahan
Tabatha Trahan
21,422 Points
Tabatha Trahan
Tabatha Trahan
21,422 Points

-v will show you the version if you have it installed, and if you use the 'which' command followed by the file or directory you are looking for, the path will be returned.

Brandon McClelland
Brandon McClelland
4,645 Points
Brandon McClelland
Brandon McClelland
4,645 Points

Using the 'whereis' command will show you all the paths that contain that command. The 'which' command will tell you which of the paths the OS will actually use if you type that command at the prompt. Both are useful in figuring out which versions are installed and which version will actually be used since you could have multiple versions installed.