Hello I just noticed it today but when I download something from yast most of the time I cant find it anywhere (beagle search brings up nothing and it’s not in the list of recently installed programs) such programs as p7zip,gqcam, black-out and blobbyvolley games just to name a few. I upgraded to kde4 awhile back and also did
mv /home/username*/.kde4 .kde4old
mv /home/username*/.kde .kdeold
would that have anything to do with it?
threatingbehaviour wrote:
> Hello I just noticed it today but when I download something from yast
> most of the time I cant find it anywhere
What app did you install? If it provided a binary, you can find it
with “whereis” command.
I.e., “whereis java” will show you the path of some java files.
> (beagle search brings up
> nothing and it’s not in the list of recently installed programs) such
> programs as p7zip,gqcam, black-out and blobbyvolley games just to name a
> few. I upgraded to kde4 awhile back and also did
> mv /home/username*/.kde4 .kde4old
> mv /home/username*/.kde .kdeold
> would that have anything to do with it?
Dunno, but I guess no, as ~/.kde|4 folders mostly stores user configurations
files and no programs :-?
Greetings,
–
Camaleón
well it was something I’ve noticed when I installed a few games like the ones I mentioned…and I totally worded it wrong…I can open apps such as blobbyvolley game and gqcam from the terminal but they are no where to found in the searches or under the subfolder where they belongs(games and multimedia) and as for p7zip I was mistaking it with q7z so I know that’s why that one didn’t turn up in the searches but as for the others I’m not sure if they were only meant to be opened from a terminal, or if something is wrong.
You need to do a “whereis” to find the binaries… If you can invoke them with a direct command in the terminal, they should be in /bin or /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin.
When you want to know where an YaST installed package has put all the files that come with it, goto YaST > Software > Software Management. Search for the package at left and select it at right. Then right below there is the description, but there are also tabs. Select the one about Installed Files.
No doubt this can be done in the CLI with *zypper. *See man zypper.
Rereading again and again I come to the conclusion the MAYBE you try to telll us that the applications you installed did not create entries in Kmenu (or the Gnome equivalent).
When that is the case, that is an omission of the people who made the package. When you know from where the application is started (by using
which <application>
)
You can create such an entry yourself. Start this process with right click on the Kmenu button.
threatingbehaviour wrote:
> well it was something I’ve noticed when I installed a few games like the
> ones I mentioned…and I totally worded it wrong…I can open apps such
> as blobbyvolley game and gqcam from the terminal but they are no where
> to found in the searches or under the subfolder where they belongs(games
> and multimedia) and as for p7zip I was mistaking it with q7z so I know
> that’s why that one didn’t turn up in the searches but as for the others
> I’m not sure if they were only meant to be opened from a terminal, or if
> something is wrong.
If those games are “kde” games, yes, they should be located under /games
sub-menu. As for the other apps, if you installed from /oss repository
or any other from the OBS service, they should also be listed on standard
locations.
Anyway, if you cannot find them at all in the menus, just open konsole and
type:
whereis blobbyvolley
That will tell you where the application went. You can then add a new entry
in kde menu for that app, pointing to the program.
Greetings,
–
Camaleón
yes hcw thats what I meant. Thank you. now that I think about it they all were pretty old games so maybe thats the reason (still doesn’t explain gqcam though) but oh well it’s an easy fix thanks