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03impy
September 9th, 2008, 08:22 PM
Ok,
I have chosen two - three apps from the software installer and installed them, but I cannot find the icon or anywhere else to start the program. what's goin on here?

Thanks.

03impy
September 9th, 2008, 08:37 PM
Im talking about the synaptic package manager.

Thanks

zvacet
September 9th, 2008, 11:50 PM
Icons for most of software is under applications.Some of programs are text based which means there is no GUI or icon.You caqn try to run app from applications>terminal typing name of app in terminal.Which apps did you installed?

tuxxy
September 9th, 2008, 11:53 PM
To run the apps you installed, open terminal and type their name in but remember its case sensitive so for example to run virtualbox you would type


VirtualBox

To prevent having to do this each time you would like to run an app, you can right click on your applications menu and add a launcher to your menu using the command for each app like above