Finding a program after it's been installed. [Solved]

[Exospaciac]

Is there a way to find out where files to a program were installed when using entropy?

I installed dolphin-emu, but can't get it to run and can't find that it was even installed. Running "dolphin-emu" in a terminal does nothing.

I tried searching for it in /usr/bin and /usr/games but found nothing. Reinstalling also did nothing.

So is there a way to check if it's actually installed?

[svantoviit]

You can try

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whereis dolphin

or maybe doplphin-emu?

Or

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find / -iname 'dolphin*'

but this will take relatively long as you are searching the whole system.
You can search faster with locate as described by Fitzcarraldo here: Re: Problem, missing apps.

Maybe you should check if your user is member of the games group. To list user's groups just run

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groups

in terminal.
If you need to add your user to the games group run

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gpasswd -a USER games

Of course replace USER with your user name.

[sabayonino]

You can try

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whereis dolphin

or maybe doplphin-emu?

Or

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find / -iname 'dolphin*'

but this will take relatively long as you are searching the whole system.
You can search faster with locate as described by Fitzcarraldo here: Re: Problem, missing apps.

Maybe you should check if your user is member of the games group. To list user's groups just run

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groups

in terminal.
If you need to add your user to the games group run

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gpasswd -a USER games

Of course replace USER with your user name.

I suggest sys-apps/mlocate

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# equo install mlocate

then run "updatedb" to build database

To find something :

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$ locate something

[Exospaciac]

Cool, got it to work and found out my problem. Thanks!

[micia]

Another way to find out where and what a package installs on your system is running:

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equo query files <package name>


for example:

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equo query files dolphin


Most of the times executable files are installed into bin directories, thus the command:

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equo query files <package name> | grep bin


often reveals the executables you are looking for.

I am marking this topic as solved, since it seems you have solved your problem, remember to do it yourself next time, as per:
viewtopic.php?f=76&t=17059

[totedati]

equo commands is enough to find binary name:

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equo query files games-emulation/dolphin-emu | grep bin
>>  ### /usr/games/bin
>>  ### /usr/games/bin/dolphin-emu
>>  ### /usr/lib/debug/usr/games/bin
>>  ### /usr/lib/debug/usr/games/bin/dolphin-emu.debug
>>  ### /usr/share/games/dolphin-emu/sys/GC/font_ansi.bin
>>  ### /usr/share/games/dolphin-emu/sys/GC/font_sjis.bin
>>  ### /usr/share/games/dolphin-emu/user/Wii/shared2/wc24/misc.bin
>>  ### /usr/share/games/dolphin-emu/user/Wii/shared2/wc24/nwc24dl.bin
>>  ### /usr/share/games/dolphin-emu/user/Wii/shared2/wc24/nwc24fl.bin
>>  ### /usr/share/games/dolphin-emu/user/Wii/shared2/wc24/nwc24fls.bin

then you can verify again using

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which dolphin-emu
/usr/games/bin/dolphin-emu

and now you know you executable name ...

is true some packages have nonintuitive executable names, disconnected and unrelated with package name and if you do not know what is its binary name you are lost in a sea of executable binaries in /usr/bin