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[springtail]

On downloading 'gimpshop' I first downloaded 'gimpshop.deb' to my desktop then right clicked and selected 'open with gdebi ' etc everything seemed to go fine but I cant find and icon or program listing in order to open it.
Im sure it has done as it should and Gimpshop is somewhere on my PC, but WHERE ?!
Is there something else I have to do for it to appear on my application browser ? or programme listing ?
Im using uberstudent and although 'Gimp' is installed 'gimpshop' didnt appear to be.
In case you havent guessed Im and extremely new newbie! so answers would be appreciated in plain english please !!
Happy new year to all.

[hazel]

A quick way to check if it is in fact installed is to open a terminal and type "which gimpshop". This will either give you the path to the program (probably /usr/bin/gimpshop) or tell you that it has not been found.

When you install software this way by downloading a package yourself and unpacking it, you are responsible for putting it into menus or setting up a desktop icon for it. The normal way to install software in Debian is to use apt-get or synaptic to fetch the package from an official Debian repository; then it gets added to the menu system automatically by a post-installation script.

[springtail]

Thanks Hazel for that, I tried the terminal command but it just ignores it and comes up with another prompt , 'uberstudent' is supposed to be a mix of debian and ubuntu so could there be a different command ?

Although I have established through synaptic that it IS installed (but it does'nt appear in 'add remove programs'?)
When I right click on 'gimpshop' in synaptic I get an option of 3 commands only : mark for removal,mark for complete removal,and properties,reinstallation etc is grayed out.

On choosing 'properties'-installed files there are a number of installed files of which this is one /usr/doc/gimpshop-2.2.11

Using this information Is it still possible to creat an icon or add it to the menu system ?

Little old lady or not,I'm sure it would be difficult to dazzle YOU with jargon !! Now I'm another story altogether !!

[rokytnji]

@ Hazel. Uberstudent is a weird distro. By the way. The site states it's based on Ubuntu Here is the press release (in case you wanna look).
https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=...CL29wNgN&pli=1

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@springtail

Hazels commands for finding a launcher are universal throughout linux distrobutions. I use that command from Puppy Linux to AntiX to make launch commands for menus and toolbars in harder to use Desktops than LXDE or the other Desktops that come with the full DVD. So

, I tried the terminal command but it just ignores it and comes up with another prompt

Either the mistake is with the way you are entering the command or something is terribly wrong withUberstudent.

[hazel]

You should find the icon in /usr/share/pixmaps; that's where all the program icons are installed. The command is most likely to be in /usr/bin. In Linux, /bin is the directory for essential commands and /usr/bin for non-essential ones. If you right-click on your desktop, you should be led through the process of creating the shortcut.

You can also launch the program from a terminal; just type "gimpshop &" (the & sets the program free from the terminal so that you can close it or use it for other commands).