Hi guys. After finally getting my resolution and wireless working, I am well on my way to making my perfect set-up. Just one more question though, if you please After downloading and installing a program from Synaptic Package Manager, I'm not too sure where the actual file to run the program can be found. Obviously, I'm just missing something simple here, so any help would be well appreciated. Cheers!
It should be added to your application menus.. if not maybe it doesn't have a menu based launcher entry. The program itself will usually live in /bin or /usr/bin.. you can test by launching from the terminal with just it's name.. i.e.. ./firefox Without knowing what you are running there is no way to tell you how to add a menu entry.. it varies by distro.. debian based? try a right click on an empty bit of desktop.
Hi, thanks for the response. I'm trying to run DGen. I've been able to add the file to the the menu manually, as the .bin lives in /usr/bin as you said. I think DGen itself is quite dodgy, as loading ROMS with it makes the ROM appear and run for a few seconds, then the program closes itself down. Anyway, do most programs add themselves to the menu, or will most have to be manually run. Just curious is'all Thanks again!
If it has a gui, it will almost always install a launcher for you. If you need to add one to your menu in gnome, use alacarte to create one.
50/50 eh Mick.. some programs will always need to be launched from a terminal. K apps on Gnome seem a little random in this respect. Personally I prefer to launch emulators from a terminal because many allow startup options which can't be accessed through the GUI.
Okay, cheers everyone. I didn't really realise it was as simple as typing the program name in a terminal, for example, dgen. Okay, dgen still isn't running, but that's a problem for another day I guess. Alacarte? I'll give that a try too, thanks for the responses. (also, in case anybody reading this is also curious, typing "which (application name)" will display the path to that file)
Sometimes the only nenu option you get is in the Debian one. Install "menu". Lenny is really good about enforcing menu flags for installed items, but if you gotta: $ update-menus
