Finding installed applications

[geoff1859]

Greetings to forum members and those more experienced than I am with Linux...

I know this topic has been done to death but the comments below from the Forum don't reflect my experience (I recently installed Maya). I'm assuming that I've missed something fundamental.

Under Newbie Questions > How to install software on LInux Mint:

"apt-get: On the forums you will often see suggestions to run a command like "sudo apt-get install program" from the terminal to install a program. This command is just a terminal version of the Software Manager; any program installed this way also shows up in the Software Manager and will also be updated by the Update Manager".

"...also shows up in the Software Manager"

However, I've downloaded Tor via Software Manager and it doesn't subsequently show up in Software Manager or under the list of Internet section.

Any tips would be much appreciated.

I believe that the difficulties that newcomers have installing (or finding already installed programs) is often the first major stumbling block that causes them to give up prematurely with Linux. I'm now having another go after having given up numerous times in the past.

Geoff

[munin]

Hi geoff. Whatever you do, do not give up. If tor does not show up in the software manager, there must be an error somewhere. That is not unusual. But if you write, tor help, in the terminal, you should see whether it is installed or not. Sudo not necessary.
I an pretty new to Mint myself, and strange and frustrating things happen sometimes, but just keep trying, and after a while Mint Maya should be a very enjoyable experience.

[geoff1859]

Hi Munin,

I put 'tor help' into the terminal and got

[warn] help with no value failing
[err] reading config failed--see warnings

I can't tell from this whether my 'help' enquiry failed or the installation of Tor... This kind of ambiguity is also high on the list of reasons why people give up...

Is there not some straightforward command like 'start tor'...?

Thanks for your help.

Geoff

[oobetimer]

Open terminal and run command:
dpkg-query -W --showformat='${Installed-Size}\t${Package}\n' | sort -nr | less

You can make a text.file about the packages:
dpkg-query -W --showformat='${Installed-Size}\t${Package}\n' | sort -nr > packages.txt

[geoff1859]

Thanks Oobetimer. I'll try that right now. (I'll also try installing other applications just to make sure that there wasn't something wrong with the Tor files.)
Geoff

[HughT]

hi geoff1859, note that the correct syntax to get help is

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tor -h

or

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tor --help

or

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man tor

for long manuals it's often more convenient to save a copy, which you can do thus:

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man tor > Desktop/tor_manual

That'll create a new document with the manual on your desktop named tor_manual, clearly you can save it elsewhere by changing the path.
Hope this helps