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I cannot open or use installed packets. where are they?

Asked by carlo

I am new to kubuntu. After instaling a packet that is an application, I do not see for many of them, an icon on the desktop or anywhere else, so I am unable to use or configure these applications.
e.g.:tor, moblock, peerguardian,readpst,aircrack and many others.where are they? what should I do to use them?
thanks

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Luca Falavigna (dktrkranz) said : 		#1

Many applications have no icon to show in the Applications menu because they are console-based programs. In order to launch them you need to open a shell (such as Konsole o gnome-terminal) and type in the name of the program you want.
Application which have a GUI usually are included in Application or System menu.

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Carthik Sharma (carthik) said : 		#2

Open a terminal and try the command "$dpkg -L <package-name>". This will give you a list of all the files that were installed by the package. Look for entries in /usr/bin/ - these are your executables.

In synaptic or adept, you can select the installed package, and right click and view the properties, one of which should be "installed files" or something similar.

Usually, documentation if any, is installed in /usr/share/doc/ So you can access that directory using either nautilus or even a browser to find the directory containing documentation for the package and read it to understand it better.

Hope this helped.

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Andrew Hunter (rexbron) said : 		#3

FYI: Aircrack is a program that runs from the command-line, it has no gui.

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Dinerty (dinerty) said : 		#4

Sometimes this does happen, there are a few things you can do to try and get them to show:

1. Restart X (ctrl+alt+backspace)
2. Install the debian menu via Synaptic Package Manager, just search for "menu-xdg", this shows a great selection of installed programs

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Kirjanov D.A. (kirjanov) said : 		#5

try use which command or locate

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