how to check

[Thorny]

On Wed, 04 Mar 2009 08:14:21 +0000, jiten jha wrote:

> Dear all ,
>          if we install any software using apt-get command then i
> want to know the location where the software package file store and
> execute.
> 

If I understand you correctly, you want the location of the executable
binary after the package has been installed. 

In a terminal enter, which *package name*. 
For a specific piece of software, I'll give the example of firefox:

thorny at Cassandra:~$ which firefox
/usr/bin/firefox

Linux Filesystem Hierarchy
http://tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/index.html