Where did it go?

[dave1310]

New to Linux using Ubuntu 10.04. I installed a software package. Symantec shows that it is installed. Aptitude shows that it is installed. It isn't in any of the menus and I've tried to trace the executable via file search and can't find it. It does show the files in Symantec under Properties > Installed Files but I still can't find the correct file/pathname to create a menu entry.
What am I doing wrong here?

[jayd512]

Howdy there!

I guess that the first question is: What did you install?
Second: Did you install it via package manager, or from source code?

[dave1310]

Howdy there!

I guess that the first question is: What did you install?
Second: Did you install it via package manager, or from source code?

The installed package is tesseract-ocr ver 2.04-2
Installed with dpkg. I have the dpkg log if that would help...

[awc]

Try using dpkg to locate the package

$ sudo dpkg -l tesseract-ocr

If that's successful then find out what files were installed with the package

sudo dpkg -L tesseract-ocr

Otherwise install using apt-get

sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr

[dave1310]

Try using dpkg to locate the package

$ sudo dpkg -l tesseract-ocr

This returned:
sudave@sudave-desktop:~$ sudo dpkg -l tesseract-ocr
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii tesseract-ocr 2.04-2 Command line OCR tool

I suspect that all means that the install was not properly completed (?) so I'll try step 3 in your suggestion.

If that's successful then find out what files were installed with the package

sudo dpkg -L tesseract-ocr

Otherwise install using apt-get

sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr

This returned the following:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
tesseract-ocr is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
[/COLOR]
Already installed? OK Back to step 2

Step 2 returned:



/.
/usr
/usr/bin
/usr/bin/cntraining
/usr/bin/mftraining
/usr/bin/tesseract
/usr/bin/unicharset_extractor
/usr/bin/wordlist2dawg

AND A BUNCH OF OTHERS



According to a properties check, the /usr/bin/tesseract is an executable file. How does that go into the menu editor so the program will execute? Or isn't that the right file to execute?

[awc]

That's the right file to execute. tesseract isn't a graphical tool so it doesn't go into the menu. You have to use it from the command line. Check out the man page for more info.

$ man tesseract 

NAME
       tesseract - command line OCR tool

SYNOPSIS
       tesseract imagename outputbase [configfile] [-l <langid>]

[dave1310]

That's the right file to execute. tesseract isn't a graphical tool so it doesn't go into the menu. You have to use it from the command line. Check out the man page for more info.

$ man tesseract 

NAME
       tesseract - command line OCR tool

SYNOPSIS
       tesseract imagename outputbase [configfile] [-l <langid>]

Ahhh. I see. That makes sense now, but was hard to see coming from MS Windows where everything has ended up as an icon or a menu item. Thanks to all who replied!!