How to know name of newly installed application

[owen.townend at gmail.com]

On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:20:25 +0200, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com>
wrote:
> How can I know the name of a newly installed application? For
> instance, I have installed gnome-bluetooth, but I cannot run it:
> 
> jaunty at ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install gnome-bluetooth
> [sudo] password for jaunty:
> Reading package lists... Done
[snip]
> 
> 
> So, how can I know what command will run the app? Thanks!

Try this:
$ dpkg -L gnome-bluetooth|grep bin
dpkg -L lists all files that came with the package.

also handy: 
$ dpkg -S <filename>
This would tell you what package provided the file, if any.

cheers,
Owen.