Where do my installed programs go?

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Where do my installed programs go?

Postby Xandrox » Fri Jul 31, 2009 22:47

I just installed 10 emulators, but only 2 are on the apps > games > ......... where are the other ones?
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Re: Where do my installed programs go?

Postby ReemZ » Fri Jul 31, 2009 23:26

More info please:
1. What version of Sabayon? (This would be 4.2 KDE, 4.1 Gnome, 4.0-r1, 3.4f, Core, etc...anything but "the latest")
2. How did you (try to) install the software? (Package manager, I hope?)
3. What did you (try to) install?
Handtekening? Zeg...ik ga niet op m'n monitor schrijven!
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Re: Where do my installed programs go?

Postby Xandrox » Fri Jul 31, 2009 23:37

1. GNome 4.2
2. Sulfer
3. Game emaultors, N64,SNES,NES,Sega,Gamecube,GBA,Atari.
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Re: Where do my installed programs go?

Postby micia » Sat Aug 01, 2009 10:15

Programs installed in a Linux/Unix environment follow some conventions.
Executables are (almost) always installed in the /usr/bin directory, usually once a program is
installed you can launch it from a shell, typing its name in lowercase (even if those conventions
are sometimes not fully respected).

You could launch a console and type the name of your emulator, for example assuming it to be
gens:
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gens

should launch it, you can create desktop icons and menu entries with these commands :)

If you are unsure about its name, you could type its initial letters and then proceed with <tab>,
<tab> will try to find a command beginning with those letters, if there are many of them it won't complete it, but
pressing <tab> twice will give you all these commands.
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Re: Where do my installed programs go?

Postby kodiakmax » Sat Aug 01, 2009 17:54

depending on how your system is set up there can also be more than one bin directory so you can try this also.
from root:
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updatedb
locate bin/gens

or
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updatedb
locate gens
If you check the wiki, use the search function and google you can find the answer to most of your questions.

Remember to mark your thread [Solved] if your issue is fixed.
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