How to find which command to run new program?

Chris Mohler cr33dog at gmail.com
Tue Sep 16 23:42:03 UTC 2008


On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have downloaded and installed Anki from this website:
> http://ichi2.net/anki/
>
> However, the likely command "anki" does not start the program. I have
> stfw but cannot figure out which command starts Anki! How can one
> figure this information out?

Hmm -  I usually do a 'dpkg -L <package_name>' or 'dpkg -L
<package_name> | grep "/usr/bin"'.  I'm sure there are other
methods...

Synaptic also shows a list of installed files IIRC.

Chris




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