Where Does vcpkg install packages on Debian?

[hop-along-polly]

I'm trying to install Yara 4.3.2 in a Debian based docker image. apt-get only goes up to Yara version 4.0.2, but according to the yara documentation I can use vcpkg to install Yara and I was hoping that would be more up to date. After running these commands to install vcpkg and Yara through vcpkg everything looks like it was successful but I can't run yara --version I get bash: yara: command not found

Here's the commands I ran for installing vcpkg and Yara

apt-get update && apt-get install zip
git clone https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg
./vcpkg/bootstrap-vcpkg.sh
./vcpkg/vcpkg install yara

Here is the output from the install yara command. In the output I see Stored binaries in 1 destinations in 1.1 s. which makes me think this was successful but there's nothing saying where the binary was stored.

root@1c9c2a428260:/# ./vcpkg/vcpkg install yara
Computing installation plan...
A suitable version of cmake was not found (required v3.25.1) Downloading portable cmake 3.25.1...
Downloading cmake...
https://github.com/Kitware/CMake/releases/download/v3.25.1/cmake-3.25.1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz->/vcpkg/downloads/cmake-3.25.1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
Extracting cmake...
The following packages will be built and installed:
  * openssl:x64-linux -> 3.1.1
  * vcpkg-cmake:x64-linux -> 2023-05-04
  * vcpkg-cmake-config:x64-linux -> 2022-02-06#1
  * vcpkg-cmake-get-vars:x64-linux -> 2023-03-02
    yara:x64-linux -> 4.3.2
Additional packages (*) will be modified to complete this operation.
Detecting compiler hash for triplet x64-linux...
Restored 0 package(s) from /root/.cache/vcpkg/archives in 455 us. Use --debug to see more details.
Installing 1/5 vcpkg-cmake:x64-linux...
Building vcpkg-cmake:x64-linux...
-- Installing: /vcpkg/packages/vcpkg-cmake_x64-linux/share/vcpkg-cmake/vcpkg_cmake_configure.cmake
-- Installing: /vcpkg/packages/vcpkg-cmake_x64-linux/share/vcpkg-cmake/vcpkg_cmake_build.cmake
-- Installing: /vcpkg/packages/vcpkg-cmake_x64-linux/share/vcpkg-cmake/vcpkg_cmake_install.cmake
-- Installing: /vcpkg/packages/vcpkg-cmake_x64-linux/share/vcpkg-cmake/vcpkg-port-config.cmake
-- Installing: /vcpkg/packages/vcpkg-cmake_x64-linux/share/vcpkg-cmake/copyright
-- Performing post-build validation
Stored binaries in 1 destinations in 45.7 ms.
Elapsed time to handle vcpkg-cmake:x64-linux: 216 ms
Installing 2/5 vcpkg-cmake-config:x64-linux...
Building vcpkg-cmake-config:x64-linux...
-- Installing: /vcpkg/packages/vcpkg-cmake-config_x64-linux/share/vcpkg-cmake-config/vcpkg_cmake_config_fixup.cmake
-- Installing: /vcpkg/packages/vcpkg-cmake-config_x64-linux/share/vcpkg-cmake-config/vcpkg-port-config.cmake
-- Installing: /vcpkg/packages/vcpkg-cmake-config_x64-linux/share/vcpkg-cmake-config/copyright
-- Performing post-build validation
Stored binaries in 1 destinations in 43.6 ms.
Elapsed time to handle vcpkg-cmake-config:x64-linux: 198 ms
Installing 3/5 vcpkg-cmake-get-vars:x64-linux...
Building vcpkg-cmake-get-vars:x64-linux...
-- Installing: /vcpkg/packages/vcpkg-cmake-get-vars_x64-linux/share/vcpkg-cmake-get-vars/vcpkg_cmake_get_vars.cmake
-- Installing: /vcpkg/packages/vcpkg-cmake-get-vars_x64-linux/share/vcpkg-cmake-get-vars/cmake_get_vars
-- Installing: /vcpkg/packages/vcpkg-cmake-get-vars_x64-linux/share/vcpkg-cmake-get-vars/cmake_get_vars/CMakeLists.txt
-- Installing: /vcpkg/packages/vcpkg-cmake-get-vars_x64-linux/share/vcpkg-cmake-get-vars/vcpkg-port-config.cmake
-- Installing: /vcpkg/packages/vcpkg-cmake-get-vars_x64-linux/share/vcpkg-cmake-get-vars/copyright
-- Performing post-build validation
Stored binaries in 1 destinations in 43.2 ms.
Elapsed time to handle vcpkg-cmake-get-vars:x64-linux: 205 ms
Installing 4/5 openssl:x64-linux...
Building openssl:x64-linux...
-- Downloading https://github.com/openssl/openssl/archive/openssl-3.1.1.tar.gz -> openssl-openssl-openssl-3.1.1.tar.gz...
-- Extracting source /vcpkg/downloads/openssl-openssl-openssl-3.1.1.tar.gz
-- Applying patch disable-apps.patch
-- Applying patch disable-install-docs.patch
-- Applying patch script-prefix.patch
-- Applying patch windows/install-layout.patch
-- Applying patch windows/install-pdbs.patch
-- Applying patch unix/android-cc.patch
-- Applying patch unix/move-openssldir.patch
-- Applying patch unix/no-empty-dirs.patch
-- Applying patch unix/no-static-libs-for-shared.patch
-- Using source at /vcpkg/buildtrees/openssl/src/nssl-3.1.1-53a8e40f57.clean
openssl requires Linux kernel headers from the system package manager.
   They can be installed on Alpine systems via `apk add linux-headers`.
   They can be installed on Ubuntu systems via `apt install linux-libc-dev`.

-- Getting CMake variables for x64-linux
-- Getting CMake variables for x64-linux-dbg
-- Getting CMake variables for x64-linux-rel
-- Configuring x64-linux-dbg
-- Configuring x64-linux-rel
-- Building x64-linux-dbg
-- Installing x64-linux-dbg
-- Building x64-linux-rel
-- Installing x64-linux-rel
-- Fixing pkgconfig file: /vcpkg/packages/openssl_x64-linux/lib/pkgconfig/libcrypto.pc
-- Fixing pkgconfig file: /vcpkg/packages/openssl_x64-linux/lib/pkgconfig/libssl.pc
-- Fixing pkgconfig file: /vcpkg/packages/openssl_x64-linux/lib/pkgconfig/openssl.pc
-- Fixing pkgconfig file: /vcpkg/packages/openssl_x64-linux/debug/lib/pkgconfig/libcrypto.pc
-- Fixing pkgconfig file: /vcpkg/packages/openssl_x64-linux/debug/lib/pkgconfig/libssl.pc
-- Fixing pkgconfig file: /vcpkg/packages/openssl_x64-linux/debug/lib/pkgconfig/openssl.pc
-- Installing: /vcpkg/packages/openssl_x64-linux/share/openssl/usage
-- Installing: /vcpkg/packages/openssl_x64-linux/share/openssl/copyright
-- Performing post-build validation
Stored binaries in 1 destinations in 2.9 s.
Elapsed time to handle openssl:x64-linux: 9.5 min
Installing 5/5 yara:x64-linux...
Building yara:x64-linux...
-- Downloading https://github.com/VirusTotal/yara/archive/v4.3.2.tar.gz -> VirusTotal-yara-v4.3.2.tar.gz...
-- Extracting source /vcpkg/downloads/VirusTotal-yara-v4.3.2.tar.gz
-- Applying patch Disable-module-elf.patch
-- Using source at /vcpkg/buildtrees/yara/src/v4.3.2-9e168299e2.clean
-- Configuring x64-linux
-- Building x64-linux-dbg
-- Building x64-linux-rel
-- Installing: /vcpkg/packages/yara_x64-linux/share/yara/copyright
-- Performing post-build validation
Stored binaries in 1 destinations in 1.1 s.
Elapsed time to handle yara:x64-linux: 39 s
Total install time: 10 min
yara provides CMake targets:

    # this is heuristically generated, and may not be correct
    find_package(unofficial-libyara CONFIG REQUIRED)
    target_link_libraries(main PRIVATE unofficial::libyara::libyara)

[hop-along-polly]

Using find . -iname *yara* I found several possible locations for the executable. Here's a list of those possible locations. Through trial and error using <path> --version I was able to track down where the executable exists.

./vcpkg/installed/x64-linux/share/yara
./vcpkg/installed/x64-linux/include/yara
./vcpkg/installed/x64-linux/tools/yara
./vcpkg/installed/x64-linux/tools/yara/yara
./vcpkg/buildtrees/yara
./vcpkg/buildtrees/yara/x64-linux-rel/yara
./vcpkg/buildtrees/yara/x64-linux-dbg/yara
./vcpkg/packages/yara_x64-linux/share/yara
./vcpkg/packages/yara_x64-linux/include/yara
./vcpkg/packages/yara_x64-linux/tools/yara
./vcpkg/packages/yara_x64-linux/tools/yara/yara <--- this is the actual yara executable

[Neumann-A]

./vcpkg/installed/x64-linux/tools/yara/yara is the correct one
./vcpkg/packages/* is just a staging area for vcpkg