Three Random Simple Questions

Dave M G martin at autotelic.com
Thu Oct 20 13:15:10 UTC 2005


On installing bittorrent:

> Save your .deb to a sane location, open a console and do "sudo dpkg -i
> myDebianPackage.deb"

Okay, I did that:
dave at ubuntu1:~/Desktop$ sudo dpkg -i
bittorrent-4.0.4.linux_i686-2_all.deb
(Reading database ... 80095 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace bittorrent-4.0.4.linux i686-2 (using
bittorrent-4.0.4.linux_i686-2_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement bittorrent-4.0.4.linux ...
Setting up bittorrent-4.0.4.linux (i686-2) ...

But, when I go to /usr/bin, there are absolutely no bittorrent related
files there. I tried "locate":
dave at ubuntu1:~/Desktop$ locate bittorrent
/var/lib/dpkg/info/bittorrent-gui.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/bittorrent-gui.postrm
/var/cache/apt/archives/bittorrent-gui_3.4.2-3ubuntu7_all.deb
/usr/share/doc/bash/completion-contrib/bittorrent
/usr/share/mime/application/x-bittorrent.xml
/usr/share/icons/gnome/16x16/mimetypes/gnome-mime-application-x-bittorrent.png
/usr/share/icons/gnome/48x48/mimetypes/gnome-mime-application-x-bittorrent.png
/usr/share/mimelnk/application/x-bittorrent.desktop

And none of these look like the actual application to me.
Where did I mess up?

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Dave M G







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