Location of installed files

[Patrick Goetz]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Gregor Shapiro
<gregor.shapiro at gmail.com> wrote:
 >> The Ubuntu Software manager does not tell users where to find the 
files that
 >> are installed using that service (neither does Synaptic).
 >> I would like to know at least where I could find an application in 
case I
 >> have a file that I want to open with a specific application

If you know the name of the package the application came from, the command

   dpkg -L package_name


will show you all the files + locations installed by this package.



-- 
Patrick Goetz