Hello all
Quick question: Is there a simple way to locate packages downloaded from the synaptic package manager?
I downloaded GoogleEarth and managed to run it from a terminal and then later worked out how to create a launcher… all good.
But I’ve just downloaded a program (via synaptic) called Cipher but can’t find a way to run it. I can find it in usr bin, but that’s as far as I can get. Is this a problem with the Cipher program or am I doing something wrong.
Thanks in advance
Are you talking about Ubuntu/Mint/Debian ? … if so…
If you mean cifer, it’s a CLI app, so just open a terminal and type:
cifer
To read the man page (manual), enter:
man cifer
There shouldn’t normally be any need to enter the full path to the app, just its name.
But in answer to your original question dpkg -L will display what an installed package put where.
(example)
dpkg -L cifer
will output:
mark@Mark:~$ dpkg -L cifer /. /usr /usr/share /usr/share/man /usr/share/man/man1 /usr/share/man/man1/cifer.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/cifer-dict.1.gz /usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/cifer /usr/share/doc/cifer/changelog.gz /usr/share/doc/cifer/copyright /usr/share/doc/cifer/changelog.Debian.gz /usr/bin /usr/bin/cifer /usr/bin/cifer-dict
OR - once installed, you can right-click the package in Synaptic and select Properties>Installed Files (tab).
hth.
Ah… yes, that’ll do it. I must have scanned the name and not noticed it was spelt ‘wrong’. I’m a words man, see 
After all that it doesn’t do what I need anyway, but many many thanks anyway.
Cheers.
What are you trying to achieve ?
Sorry Mark, I only just saw your reply.
Nothing too thrilling… I’ll send you a PM.
[ol]- Open synaptic package manager,
This will show you all the files installed from the binary package. Not familiar with this app, but am sure the exec file will be found in /usr/bin or /bin (maybe /sbin but not likely)
Robert