How Do I Find A New Program That I Just Installed? Feisty.

[mechanism]

I downloaded and installed a logging program called Jlog per the instructions on this website http://jlog.org/linux.htm. The program installed successfully but I can not find it. There isn't a desktop icon for the program nor can I find it in any my k-menus. How can I find the program then install an icon on the desktop?

Thanks,

m

[claydoh]

Re: How Do I Find A New Program That I Just Installed? Feisty.

One way is to open a Konsole window, and type in the command

wheris jlog

That should show the full path to the executable, usually along the lines of
'/usr/bin/jlog'

Usually, you should just have to type in the command in a konsole, or the 'run command' dialog in the kmenu.

You can use that info to create a desktop shortcut by right-clicking on the desktop, select "newe" then "link to Application" and enter in the needed info there. You may have to look around for the icon

Now, if you followed the directions from their site, you will find the installed files and icons in /home/<username>/jlog so the path to the command would be:
/home/<username>/jlog/jlog
and the icon will be in
/home/<username>/jlog/images/jlog32.gif

You can select the icon you want in the desktop shortcut dialog by clicking in the blue gear icon in the first section, select 'other icons' and browse to the image you want.

[mechanism]

Re: How Do I Find A New Program That I Just Installed? Feisty.

Thank you! I will give that a try when I get home tonight.

Very much appreciated!

m

[mechanism]

Re: How Do I Find A New Program That I Just Installed? Feisty.

I typed whereis jlog and got the below as a response

mrmsudawgs@closet:~$ whereis jlog
jlog:
mrmsudawgs@closet:~$

That's it. Also, I can't seem to find Jlog by searching with Konqueror either. Any ideas?

m

[claydoh]

Re: How Do I Find A New Program That I Just Installed? Feisty.

as the installed files are not installed in the default system folders, the command won't find them.

But if you installed using all the default settings as presented by jlog's installer, and did not install using kdesudo/sudo, the paths will be as I mentioned in the second section of my previous post:
the command line to run the program will be:

/home/<username>/jlog/jlog

you will need to type the full path above for it to run

[mechanism]

Re: How Do I Find A New Program That I Just Installed? Feisty.

I typed the below in my shell but received the below messages instead.

mrmsudawgs@closet:~$ /home/mrmsudawgs/jlog/jlog
bash: /home/mrmsudawgs/jlog/jlog: No such file or directory
mrmsudawgs@closet:~$ sudo /home/mrmsudawgs/jlog/jlog
Password:
sudo: /home/mrmsudawgs/jlog/jlog: command not found
mrmsudawgs@closet:~$

I'm a noob so I really appreciate the help.

[claydoh]

Re: How Do I Find A New Program That I Just Installed? Feisty.

My mistake there, you have to be sure your pathname and file name are CaSe sEnSiTiVe. Sorry about that.

/home/mrmsudawgs/jLog/jLog (note the captial 'L' ion the names. I think I need new glasses....

I also noted that if you re run the installer, it will offer to create links. I just used that option to put the link in /home/<user>/Desktop so you won't even have to create your own link there.
DesktopDesktop
However, the program crashes at start for me, but I did not do any of the setup steps as you did, just ran the installer

[mechanism]

Re: How Do I Find A New Program That I Just Installed? Feisty.

Now it is working! I had to rerun the install and then tell it to place links on my desktop. Now I have another problem. This error pops us:

I/O Error (#8), File: conf/profile.1 (permission denied).

Oddly, there isn't a "profile.1" file in that directory. I assume the program will create one after I input some data (my profile). However, I certainly do have write access to that folder? Right?

As a second attempt to resolve this issue, I reinstalled the program into /home/username/jLog directory to ensure that I did have write access but the problem did not go away. This may be a program specific problem but if you have any input on the matter I would really appreciate it.

Thanks again for all of your help.

m

[opie]

Re: How Do I Find A New Program That I Just Installed? Feisty.

"However, I certainly do have write access to that folder? Right?"

Check it in konqueror. Both the main directory and and subdirectories and make sure that you are the owner and group. Make sure the directories and files are owned by you.

I would also create a 0 byte file with that name where it expects it to be. Just save a blank screen from the kate text editor.

[mechanism]

Re: How Do I Find A New Program That I Just Installed? Feisty.

Check it in konqueror. Both the main directory and and subdirectories and make sure that you are the owner and group. Make sure the directories and files are owned by you.

How do I use Knoqueror to determine if I am the owner and group? Do I "Right Click" on the folder? I am at work right now which is the reason I can not just simply try the right click method.

Let's say that I'm not the owner. What then? Can I change the status?

M

[mechanism]

Re: How Do I Find A New Program That I Just Installed? Feisty.

Ah...Now that I'm home I can easily see how to tell who is the owner and such. Okay, the folder in questions is setup as follows:

Owner: root
Group: root

This folder is located at /home/username/jlog/conf. This is not located in "root"? Also, the options to change the user/group is grayed out. I can't modify it. What should I do?



Thanks,

M

[claydoh]

Re: How Do I Find A New Program That I Just Installed? Feisty.

The quickest and easiest way to do this is via a Konsole window:

sudo chown -Rv <username> /home/<username>

This will make sure all the files in your home directory have the correct ownership.
Often running a gui app with sudo instead kdesudo can cause permission changes in your home directory. Only run something with sudo/kdesudo if you absolutely need to

I found I could finally run the app by installing the 4 version of jLog (not the newest 4.4) and letting it update itself.

[mechanism]

Re: How Do I Find A New Program That I Just Installed? Feisty.

Interesting. I'll give that a try.

How does one uninstall programs in Linux? It is easy to do using the repositories / Adept but what command do you use otherwise?

I need to uninstall these previous three installs of 4.4 before downloading 4.0.

Thank you for your continued help.

m

[claydoh]

Re: How Do I Find A New Program That I Just Installed? Feisty.

well in your case, it is simply a matter of deleting the files from your home dir, as nothing was installed to the system, assuming you didn't install outside your /home directory.

It is all dependent on how you installed something.

These java programs usually just need to be deleted, while deb file or anything installed via adept it is easiest to use adept, while things you build from the source code itself need to removed via the command line,

[mechanism]

Re: How Do I Find A New Program That I Just Installed? Feisty.

Excellent. I can handle that. Thanks again.