Re: Where is my app installed?

On Thu, 2024-08-22 at 20:36 -0400, Arbol One wrote:
>  
> After installing PostgreSQL on my Debian-12 machine, I typed
> 'postgres --version' and got this msg:
>  bash: postgres: command not found
>  
> 'psql --version', however, does work and gives me this message :
>  
> psql (PostgreSQL) 16.3 (Debian 16.3-1.pgdg120+1)
>  
> Obviously postgres is not in the path, but I don't know where the
> 'apt-get' installed it or why it did not add it to the path.
>  
>  Is there a way I can locate the installation directory?
>  
>  Thank in advance.
>  
>  

find / -name postgres

or

dpkg-query -L postgresql-16 | grep 'bin/postgres$'

You wouldn't normally invoke the server from the command line, so it
doesn't need to be in anyone's path.