How do I run an installed program?

[gregzeng]

I want to bench test the speed of my hard disk, before I install the new & bigger one. Synaptics tells me that BONNIE is installed.

I re-booted, search for it, and it was installed. I went to the command line interface, put in "bonnie" and ... nothing?

Where is it? Similarly I installed many other apps, but cannot find them on any of the many menus. What next?

Is this a Mint problem (Ubuntu based, uptodate drivers & apps, 32 bit, 4gb ram, I3 CPU, 500 GB HDD, ACER NOTEBOOK)

Mint will not allow me to use my usual Ubuntu admin password, which starts with a "Space" (space bar). So this Mint is not really Ubuntu based, is it?

[viking777]

Synaptics tells me that BONNIE is installed.

In which case it will also tell you where it is installed. Right click 'Bonnie' select Properties/Installed Files. The executable will be probably in /bin or /usr/bin. Shortcuts to command line programs will never appear in any gui menu. Also you might like to run

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man Bonnie

or

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Bonnie --help

For help with the program. (the letter B may not be upper case, I don't know).

As for passwords, I wouldn't think that a space would be an allowable character in a password, but I have never tried this.

Finally Mint is Ubuntu based yes but that doesn't mean it is exactly the same (thank the Lord!).

[AlbertP]

A seperate admin password is not default Ubuntu behaviour. You must have fiddled with the /etc/sudoers file or the user accounts settings to get a seperate login and admin password. If you can remember what you did on Ubuntu, you can do the same thing on Mint.

[Aging Technogeek]

To run the program, just enter

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bonnie++ (option)

in terminal and wait for the results. It may take a while depending on system speed and hard drive size.

EDIT

Additional information

in terminal, enter

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man bonnie++

to bring up the bonnie man pages. All required information on set up and running tests is there.

[AlbertP]

Don't forget to press Enter - this is what you have done?