Finding executable files

[Chris Mohler]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Leonard Bussey <lbus42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Where can I find where Ubuntu puts the executable file to launch an
> application.  I'm trying to set up IceWM and have to manually set up the
> menu items.  Thank You.

dpkg -L <package name>

will show all files for <package name>.

dpkg -L <package name> | grep "/usr/bin"

will likely return binary (executable) files for many packages.

HTH,
Chris