Quote from: Young Morpheus on June 22, 2013, 08:49 amYeah. I'm just learning the file structure. I have a lot of Windows experience, and a lot of command line/powershell experience, but I'm trying to learn Linux at entry level beyond your typical user. When you do the apt-get command, and you point it to such and such, where does it derive that? like if I want to install blah blah, and I go an apt-get install blah-blah, where does it grab "blah-blah" from? Does it point to a script? If so, I assume it looks through any paths as well as the active directory? Does the Environment have paths like in Windows? How do I view the environment if so? Thanks that's very helpful. I noticed the single and double dashes but failed to put two and two together.Canonical, the group that maintains Ubuntu, provides the packages. That's what apt-get checks, their remote repository. I don't use Ubuntu (or any other distro that uses Debian's packages), so I don't really know the details, but the man page should tell you where the config files are and whatnot. If you want to view the environment, at a command line type "env" and it'll print out all the environmental variables for you. And yep, it has paths. Basically it's just convention though, I mean the shell that you use checks the PATH environment variable and that's where it finds the programs to run when you type them. There's nothing special about that specific variable is what I mean -- it's just convention.