How to locate programs?

[Akademika]

I just installed the latest version of Transmission BT client (with GUI, shortcut in menu working fine) on Ubuntu.

The problem is, it's not associated with .torrent files, so I have to locate the program, but I can't find it anywhere. Where is it? I checked this, but the files seems to be different (that is also a very old version).

I have also tried "locate transmission" and going through various folders, but I can't find it. Found some other transmission files, but not the GUI. Didn't work to open torrents with any of the files I found.

[Bemk]

You should probably just right click the torrent, click open "with Other Application", fold open the "use a custom command" and type "transmission" into the appearing text box. Then click open, and the torrent should be opened with transmission.

The binary is in /usr/bin by the way.

Here is something you can use to find binary files the next time. When you need an application, go look in /bin, unless it is an application installed by the package manager, then you should look in /usr/bin.

The files you need administrator privileges for are typically in /sbin or when installed by the package manager in /usr/sbin.

On most distros that's the used structure.

[darkrose0510]

open a terminal and run:

which transmission

this will tell you where the executable is on your system, as to where it is in the menu's; that would depend on which distro and desktop environment you are using.
Like BEMK said though, right click and "open with oher applitcation" is likely your best option.

[Bemk]

Thanks Darkrose, for the correction here.