Downloaded programs not to be found!

[jb1954]

Hi folks! I just joined this forum as it looked like quite a good one.

What I was wondering is that when I download some programs, for instance flac, using the Synaptic Package Manager it downloads it alright, but just where I do not know! How would I find this program and other programs and move them up to Applications? It's gotta be something simple.

[coopstah13]

when you go to synaptic and install applications, you don't have to worry about finding the downloaded stuff and installing it, if that is what you mean, when you hit apply it installs/updates the changes you made.

If that is not what you mean it will depend on your window manager.

In gnome/kde/xfce there is a main button on your taskbar that has most of your applications in it that are separated by categories. You'll have to do some looking around to find which category your application is in most likely.

[jb1954]

when you go to synaptic and install applications, you don't have to worry about finding the downloaded stuff and installing it, if that is what you mean, when you hit apply it installs/updates the changes you made.

If that is not what you mean it will depend on your window manager.

In gnome/kde/xfce there is a main button on your taskbar that has most of your applications in it that are separated by categories. You'll have to do some looking around to find which category your application is in most likely.

I should add that I'm fairly new to linux and have only been using it since January when I finally got sick of Vista. Anyway, to get on with it. I didn't see any icon on the taskbar that would show me all the programs. Does nautilus have anything to do with it. Is it a window manager?
Also, I'm using gnome. Thanks for your assistance. If you have any other ideas I'm very open to them. I can learn things, but the ol' learning curve is slower at 54. Ha!

[coopstah13]

nautilus is your file manager

gnome would be your window manager.

It should be similar to the "start" menu on a windows machine, except its not labeled "start" it looks like a foot

[jb1954]

Yes, I found the foot and all and used what tools (like alacarte menu editor) I could to find the programs. They should have been under sound I would say as one is for flac files and the other is shn tool for shn files. Maybe I'll try reinstalling and see if they show up. Thanks for you help!

[zonker66]

im quite sure that the reason these programs didn't show up in your menu is that they are probably cli tools. command line interface. flac is for sure and as far as i remember shn is as well. There is GUI programms for these, i just dont remember any. Look in synaptic and do a search. The tools are really easy to use, this page is good for a start aidanjm’s stuff
oh, and whenever you install something and needs to figure out how it works don't forget the nice man-pages that follow almost all applications in debian; in a konsole write "man whatever_you_just_installed"

[iwanabeguru]

hi

to listening flac files use audacious it's a winamp look like music player application , you can install it trough synaptic.

i nkow nothing about shn files

[jb1954]

Hi zonker66, I didn't realize that flac was a cli tool. It would make sense that shn tool would be also. I'll check out synaptic for a gui for these tools. Furthermore I just didn't think about the man pages. Thanks for your thoughts and the reminder.
Hi iwanabeguru, what I am trying to do with flac files is change them over to wav files and burn them to a cd. The same with shn files. I don't know of a player that would play them. Shn tool is just another way to compress music files like flac is (or decompress). If one is mailing music to someone, one can get a lot more music using compressed files on a cd or it it is a whole lot then on a dvd. Thanks for the word on audacious. If I ever get some excellent speakers for the computer I'd use that.
Thanks a lot for both of your posts! I appreciate it! jb