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On linux we use application installer like synaptic package manager or adept etc. We get no idea where in directories those applications are installed. You can check this using dpkg utility.

If you want to check where all the files of the package are located then use following command:

dpkg -L

For example, if package files for gparted to be found out then command will be :

dpkg –L gparted

This will list the files/folders where gparted and it’s dependent configuration files are listed.

If you’re using ubuntu then you can use the GUI utility “Disk usage checker”. Or there is another way to check the disk space usage on ubuntu. You can use the df command on terminal. Whenever you want to list the disk space usage on ubuntu then type :

df -TH

This will list the disk space usage.

If you’ve multiple running applications installed on system you might wonder sometimes that which version is running. To find out the path of the application, you can use “which” command then followed by the executable you would have run.

For example :

which svn

This will display the directory of the running version of svn. (Tested this on ubuntu, fedora and suse).