How to find and open programs?

[aviynw]

Hi, I'm new to linux. I recently installed some program like wine and thunderbird and they have both installed correctly. However, I have no idea where the are located and hence I am unable to open them. They are not in the KDE menu. When I find them how can I add them to the kde menu? I'm running mandriva linux 2007.1 spring. I'm positive they installed correctly becuase at the end of the installation when I chose to open them they worked perfectly.

Thanks for the help.

[minigeek]

Hi

To find out where Wine and Thunderbird have been installed.

First open a terminal session and su to root. At the command prompt enter the following

whereis mozilla-thunderbird

mozilla-thunderbird: /usr/bin/mozilla-thunderbird /etc/mozilla-thunderbird /usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird /usr/X11R6/bin/mozilla-thunderbird /usr/bin/X11/mozilla-thunderbird /usr/share/mozilla-thunderbird /usr/share/man/man1/mozilla-thunderbird.1.gz

The /usr/bin/mozilla-thunderbird will launch the application

Do the same in the terminal session to find wine

whereis wine

To add these to you Kmenu open the following for the Kmenu

System Configuration (Settings) now choose Desktop/Panels/menus from the menus windows choose Edit K Menu.

[Zelmo]

Truth be told, you shouldn't need to know where they are (as long as you used your package manager to install them). They each should have placed their executable in a directory that's in your system path, such as /usr/bin, so just typing the name in a console will start the program.

If you still want to know exactly where they are, a more direct way to find out is to use the which command:

which wine
which thunderbird

Like minigeek said, adding them to the K menu is really easy. You can also get to the K menu editor by just right-clicking on your K menu button and selecting "Menu Editor" from the list that pops up.

[aviynw]

thanks, the whereis command worked. Though I think I am just going download programs via mandriva's package manager when I can from now on.

[lufthanza]

thanks, the whereis command worked. Though I think I am just going download programs via mandriva's package manager when I can from now on.

That's the best idea if you're new to linux.