It's installed but how do I find it?

[jedsweb]

I used the package manager to install a software package. Now it shows installed but how do I find it? I can find links from the menu search bar, but when i click them it just tells me it is already installed. I want to run it.

Good thing there are no stupid question!

[WharfRat]

If you remember the name of the package you can dpkg -l package_name to list the package content

If there's a menu entry it will have a .desktop extension so you can grep for that too,

Sometime with the menu you have to log out then back in again for the menu to update.

[I2k4]

Hard to know what exactly you did, but sometimes the icons don't show up in the menu system until you've rebooted the PC. Try that first, if you haven't already, then you'll know there's a problem,

[Flemur]

If you remember the name of the package you can dpkg -l package_name to list the package content

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dpkg -L package_name

Capital L !

Also try

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locate program-name
sudo find / -iname "*part-of-name*" 

[WharfRat]

If you remember the name of the package you can dpkg -l package_name to list the package content

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dpkg -L package_name

Capital L !

OOPS good catch

[377Ohms]

Hi jedsweb...

You don't tell us the name of the package(s) you installed. Some programs with a graphical interface won't install an icon in the Menu or will install an icon in the Menu but in an unexpected place. Did you carefully look through all the programs in Menu > All Applications? Of course a command line program will typically not have a Menu icon at all.

If you know the nane of the program's execitable file, you can find where the file resides in many ways. Here are just three examples locating the binary file for the ls command, which turns out to live in /bin/ls:

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$ which ls
/bin/ls
$ whereis ls
ls: /bin/ls /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz
$ type -a ls
ls is aliased to `ls --color=auto'
ls is /bin/ls

[Moem]

It could also be an application without a graphical interface, that's meant to be used in the terminal.