Where Apps are Stored on My HDD (like "Program Files")?

[Peter Garrett]

On Thu, 17 May 2007 16:20:40 -0500
Jason Moody <jmoody83 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I'm using Ubuntu 7.04 and Firefox 2.0.0.3. In Firefox if you go to
> Edit->Preferences->Feeds then select "Subscribe to the feed using:" I
> want to use Liferea (only feed reader I could find) automatically when I
> select a feed in Firefox browser. That's my real question.

Use 

/usr/bin/liferea-add-feed

in the field for the choice. You can enter
this directly, instead of "browsing" to it from the file chooser that pops
up in Edit-Preferences-Feeds .  I tried it here and it works ... :-)

In general, you can find the executable for a program that is installed by
typing 

which <nameofprogram>

in a terminal. Some programs have odd names for the executable. You can
usually find it by typing

dpkg -L <nameofpackage>  | grep bin  ( notice the capital  "L" )

In the case of liferea, "dpkg -L liferea | grep bin" pops up a number of
possibilities - I got the one that I suggested from that list.

$ dpkg -L liferea | grep bin | grep feed

/usr/bin/liferea-add-feed


for games, try substituting "games" for "bin" , since most games have
their executable in /usr/games.  For example



$ which frozen-bubble
/usr/games/frozen-bubble

$ which liferea
/usr/bin/liferea

Peter