How to find which command to run new program?

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Wed Sep 17 07:32:20 UTC 2008


2008/9/17 Chris Mohler <cr33dog at gmail.com>:
> 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
>

Thanks. It turns out that there was a dependency issue that I missed
and it was not installed! Taken care of.

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