Installed programs [SOLVED]

[BobbyS]

Hello everyone,

I have installed a package from Synaptic that is "Grokking the GIMP" which is a GIMP tutorial book by Carey Bunks (HTML)

My question is: when something like this is installed, where does it go? how do I find it to open it?
If someone can help I would sure appreciate it!

Thanks a bunch!
BobbyS

[arochester]

Re: Installed programs

how do I find it to open it?

Try pressing Alt+f2 together and inputting: grokking-the-gimp

Or opening a terminal and input the same

A very useful command is: whereis

Try inputting in a terminal: whereis grokking-the-gimp

[BobbyS]

Re: Installed programs

This is what I get:

bobby@ubuntu:~$ whereis grokking-the-gimp
grokking-the-gimp:
bobby@ubuntu:~$

[jglen490]

Re: Installed programs [SOLVED]

The "whereis" process works as long as its database is up to date. Otherwise it just returns the name with a colon and no other info.

You can also issue:

su find / -name grokking-the-gimp

. If that file exists, it will be found, even if it takes a while.

[jglen490]

Re: Installed programs [SOLVED]

Oops. My bad. I was thinking of something else. The whereis by itself looks in a predetermined set of locations to find the specified file. Whereis can also take a full path as an argument with an option and search there, also.

[Guest]

Re: Installed programs [SOLVED]

For future reference you can also run updatedb and then mlocate <part of or the full filename> to find files in your filesystem. It's much faster than find.