How do I start a program?

[Yoda_Glenn]

I downloaded and installed frozen-bubble for Mandriva (the binary), but I don't know how to start the program/game. How do I do this? Linux is a very puzzling operating system.

[smolloy]

Can you tell us how you downloaded this? Did you find it on a website, or did you use a package manager to install it?

How did you install it?

[Yoda_Glenn]

I went here:

frozen-bubble.org/downloads

and from there I clicked on a link that downloaded the package and installed it immediately.

"Mandriva 2006 ... Cooker* on i586 (19.6 MB): frozen-bubble-2.1.0-0.1.20060mdk.i586.rpm" - This was before the download link

It says it's a binary.

[smolloy]

Ah, so you downloaded the *.rpm file, and it automatically installed it?

You can probably start it, by looking in the applications menu. It's probably in a sub-menu called "games".

Also, you could try starting it by typing "frozen-bubble", or something similar, at the command line.

[Yoda_Glenn]

Thanks! The frozen-bubble command line did the trick!