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On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 23:13 +0000, jon.davey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi, I recently installed some packadges using Synaptic. THey didn't show up > in any of the menus anywhere Applications->Accessories->Terminal $ apt-cache pkgnames Also try 'apropos' and 'man' with some of the package names that you installed: $ man mutt $ apropos video > which got me thinking. Acording to Synaptic I > have over a thousand packedges, application and programs installed on my > system. Where is all of this software? Running quietly and unobtrusively behind that fancy GUI - supporting and fixing everything behind the scenes. Basically, doing the hard stuff that GUI's just can't do and without which a GUI could not even start. GNU/Linux is 90% CLI - live with it and learn to love it. No GUI application can do even 1% of what the equivalent CLI program can achieve. ;-) (I think I can say that with some level of fact because I've written both CLI and GUI programs to do similar tasks.) Everything about writing a GUI forces constraints on how the program interacts with the user as well as adding hundreds of lines of code just to do that. > , how can I find it? $ ls /usr/bin $ ls /bin $ ls /usr/games/ > and how can I add > icons to the main menu if I so desire ? No point - most of it is command line stuff that doesn't have a usable interface for an icon. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html