Where to find installed programs?

[mozny]

I installed Kuickshow viewer but I cannot find it in the menu. How to launch it?
I use live distribution CD Kubuntu 8.04 KDE3 on the system w/o harddisk.
Thanks for any help.

[cantab]

Re: Where to find installed programs?

Sometimes you need to log out and back in again for programs to show in the system menu. Otherwise, try launching it from a terminal (just type kuickshow and press enter)

And remember, if you reboot a live system, you're probably gonna lose everything! For a diskless workstation, you might consider running something from a usb flash drive instead, or if it has a reasonable amount of ram (at least 256 MB) consider Puppy Linux's multisession CD capabilities.

[tuesday20102001]

Re: Where to find installed programs?

several directories, depends on the programmer. I usually keep my programs in /usr/lib/
some programs are found in /usr/local/ or /usr/share, ect.

when in doubt, use the following command to locate it: locate "PROGRAM_NAME"

[mozny]

Re: Where to find installed programs?

Thanks!

I have similar issue with WINE. I installed it into Live Distribution installation and installed Total Commander succesfully but I cannot find it as well. I expect that I cannot run windows programm from terminal window.
Thank you for additonal advice!

[mozny]

Re: Where to find installed programs?

As of boot from USB - my PC is not capable to boot from USB but only from CD. Is it possible anyhow store this live session on usb device?

Thanks!

[cantab]

Re: Where to find installed programs?

Don't know much about saving stuff to usb with Kubuntu live (or anything live for that matter).

As for Wine stuff - they usually install into subdirectories of .wine in your home directory. Something like ~/.wine/dos_devices/c/Program Files/
Find the program there and run it with wine program_name.exe