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Grant Sewell writes: > On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:13:27 +0000 > >> Hi,<snip>I have over a thousand programs installed on my system. Where is all of >> this software?, how can I find it? and how can I add icons to the main menu if I >> so desire ? Cheers for any replies!, Jon DAvey > > Hi John, > Synaptic will tell you all the packages that are installed, and you may > find that a rather large proportion of them are "libraries" and as such > have no need for menu entries. ...yeah I thought so but this was a P2P program that I installed and I fully expected there to ne an entry in the menu.... > I personally install "aptsh" pretty soon after a fresh install - it's a > commandline tool that allows you quick access to some pretty nice > functions of apt/dpkg... such as "aptsh listfiles xxxx" (xxxx being the > name of an installed package) will give you a complete list of all the > files said package has installed - if you grep that with bin then it'll > give you a list of all files installed by that package that are in some > "bin" directory: > $ aptsh listfiles xxxx | grep -i "bin" > > (you may have to sudo it) ...OK.... > How you add entries to "the menu" depends on what you're running. Both > KDE and Gnome have their own respective menu editors - usually > right-clicking on the menu should give you an option to do so. If > you're running something else, then that's a different matter. ....whatever comes as default with ubuntu 7.10(gutsy gibon), it's gnome I'm pretty sure. > Hope this helps. > Grant. > OK, so I install the packedge with dkpg and find it using 'aptsh' in the command line ? Does this only apply to packedges installed using thesde two programs; 'apt' and 'dpkg' then? or will it locate all software ?..... -- 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