Using rpm to find an installed program (RedHat, CentOS, Fedora)

To see what programs are installed use:

rpm -qa

If you just installed a program and want to know where it went then grep for it:

$ rpm -qa | grep vim-X11
vim-X11-7.4.160-2.el7.x86_64

Once you have the name of the package, then you can list the files it installed:

$ rpm -ql vim-X11-7.4.160-2.el7.x86_64
/usr/bin/evim
/usr/bin/gex
/usr/bin/gview
/usr/bin/gvim
/usr/bin/gvimdiff
/usr/bin/gvimtutor
/usr/bin/vimx
/usr/share/applications/gvim.desktop
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/gvim.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/gvim.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/gvim.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/gvim.png
/usr/share/man/man1/evim.1.gz

There is my gvim I was looking for.

P.S. If these newly installed executables aren’t working from PATH, then try opening a fresh shell.