Where did games installed from Synaptic go?

[Georgia boy]

Hi. I marked four games in the Synaptic Package Manager for installation. I clicked apply. The package manager shows installed. I checked my games under applications, don't show. Checked the repos, not there. What am I doing wrong. All advice appreciated.

Thanks

Tom

[Cybie257]

Hi. I marked four games in the Synaptic Package Manager for installation. I clicked apply. The package manager shows installed. I checked my games under applications, don't show. Checked the repos, not there. What am I doing wrong. All advice appreciated.

Thanks

Tom

At times, I have had to reboot in order for things to show up in the menu's after installing. Didn't make sense, but it worked. So, you can give that a try first and see if that brings them to view.

-Cybie

[Georgia boy]

Tried that twice. Still no go. I went back into the Synpatic and the four games are still marked as being installed. Was there something else I should have done after that? Never downloaded any games from there before so I don't know if there was something else I should have done.

Thanks
Tom

[Bölvaður]

feel like I've seen this thread before.

but ok you do not need to reboot to see an updated list, just need to kill gnome-panel, which btw is also the command to do that (if you replace kill with killall).

but the files go all over the place, you can right click on the packge in synaptic package manager to see where each file is located that comes from that package.
But they should show up in Applications → Games, and if they are command line games they will not. then you'll need to type down the name of the game in the terminal.

[hikaricore]

Yea some indication of what games you installed would be helpful.
Not all applications create launchers.

[Georgia boy]

Sorry, I did a search but didn't find any threads on this so created this thread. Games I supposedly installed from synaptic are: Angband,ASC,Blobwars,LSnipes and Qonk. Nothing in the applications and games. So, how do I get them there? ](*,)

Thanks

Tom

[tuahaa]

Some games don't have launchers. Try running the terminal command.

[hikaricore]

angband for sure is a console game, the others i'm not sure about.

[del_diablo]

Some games don't have launchers. Try running the terminal command.

MANY games lack launchers sadly. And this is a problem since the repos is frozen for ages, so there launchers should have been there ages ago.

[Georgia boy]

Tried to find them. Found two in the user share game folder. No bin or anything I could see in the Synaptic. Decided to remove them and go for others that hopefully will add themselves into the menu and won't be a pain in the rear to work with. Don't want to have to use terminal each time I want to play a game.
I really do appreciate all of the tips I was receiving.

Thank you
Must be the luck of the draw. I had tried the menu edit thing, didn't work. Was able to get them through terminal to come up. Also same thing happened when I installed Star Voyager. Guess I'll just have to mess around at times and see which ones will go to applications and be visible and which ones don't. What's with playing a game in terminal? Does that mean I'm in root when that happens or not? I mean I don't sign in or anything. Just type in the name of the game and it shows up for play. Might sound like a dumb question but I don't know.
I have put this into my bookmarks along with a video I found in Youtube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJh255eFuVs
Very interesting but didn't really help on what I was wanting to do but might help others.
Decided to remove the Star Voyager also. Tried to play it along with the others in the terminal. Not that much fun. So I'll just keep trying.

Again, thanks for all help and advice.

Tom