antiquexray wrote:once you find the executeble program, can you create a shortcut for the desktop.
Addition to this: In GNOME if you right click onto a panel or the desktop you should get a menu point
"New Application Launcher" or something like that? A dialogue will show up and ask you for the details, e.g. the command needed to start the program. Again,
you just need to know the name (which you can find out with the methods described in the previous posting). You don't need to search your harddisk for the specific location of the program.
Another method: Let's suppose you still remember parts of the name of the package you installed, e.g. "thunderbird". How do we find out how this program should be launched? We ask our super-friendly Linux OS to spit out the correct name of the package and of the binary!
So here we go ... first in proper English, then the shell commands so that our LinuxMint actually understands what we want:
Dear "Bea" (or "Barbara" in my case), I know I have a package called "thunderbird"-something on the system, please can you list all
installed packages that have the term "thunderbird" in their name?
... returns this:
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Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-=============================================
ii mozilla-thunderbird 1.5.0.8-0ubuntu0.6.10 Mozilla Thunderbird standalone mail client
un mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail <none> (no description available)
un mozilla-thunderbird-inspector <none> (no description available)
un mozilla-thunderbird-typeaheadfind <none> (no description available)
un thunderbird <none> (no description available)
ii thunderbird-locale-en-gb 1.5.0.2ubuntu1-3 Thunderbird English language/region package
Notice the two "ii" next to "mozilla-thunderbird"? This means that this package is installed on the system and therefore it is the package we want to look at!
Dear "Bea", please list the content of that package!
... try it out
Slight variation: Dear "Bea", please show me all
installable packages regarding this "thunderbird" thing ...
... returns a list of packages that have something to do with "thunderbird" ... Please try it out!
All these functions can of course also be used via synaptic ... but the terminal is definitely faster (plus you don't need to be root for these types of package queries).
Regards,
Scorp123