Re: [tlug] Am I supposed to just know what I've installed?

[Sigurd Urdahl <sigurdur@example.com>]

Dave M G wrote:
> TLUG,
>
> The subject line may sound like a really dumb question, but bear with me.
>
> I found this really great utility for configuring my Wacom tablet that 
> I want to try out:
> http://alexmac.cc/tablet-apps/
>
> Happily, it even comes with an Ubuntu-ready deb package. Sweet.
>
> So I download it, and install it, and then... I have no idea how to 
> start it.
[..]
> What is the standard way of determining the way to run a newly 
> installed app?

I'd start with listing the contents of the package.

You probably downloaded and installed tablet-apps_0.3.1-0_i386.deb, sp 
the name of the _package_ is tablet-apps. Try running

   dpkg -L tablet-apps

You are most likely interestd in files in some kind of bin-directory.

kind regards,

-sig

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