Can't find installed programs

[John R. Sowden]

john at sentry35:~$   p="Details"
john at sentry35:~$   apt-cache depends $p
E: No packages found
john at sentry35:~$   apt-cache show    $p | grep Filename
E: No packages found
john at sentry35:~$   dpkg -L           $p | grep desktop
dpkg-query: package 'details' is not installed
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
john at sentry35:~$   dpkg -L           $p | grep -v share
dpkg-query: package 'details' is not installed
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
john at sentry35:~$   dpkg -L           $p | grep script
dpkg-query: package 'details' is not installed
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
john at sentry35:~$   dpkg -L           $p | grep py
dpkg-query: package 'details' is not installed
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
john at sentry35:~$


On 03/26/2017 07:14 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Mar 2017 06:32:01 -0700, John R. Sowden wrote:
>> XUbuntu 16.04
>>
>> I cannot find a program called 'details' that I installed from the
>> ubuntu software center.  USC shows that it is installed, catfish
>> cannot find it.  so I removed it and reinstalled it.  It is not in the
>> application menu system, catfish still cannot find it.
> Hi,
>
> please open a terminal, copy and paste the following, but replace
> "foo" with the package name. Perhaps the package name is "details",
> but the package name not necessarily is "details". Post the complete
> output, command + output of the command.
>
>    p="foo"
>    apt-cache depends $p
>    apt-cache show    $p | grep Filename
>    dpkg -L           $p | grep desktop
>    dpkg -L           $p | grep -v share
>    dpkg -L           $p | grep script
>    dpkg -L           $p | grep py
>
> The Ubuntu Package Search doesn't finds a package named "details",
> there are several paths including or ending with "details". Exact
> not case-sensitive file names "details" are seemingly no programs.
>
> Is it a binary or a script?
>
> Regards,
> Ralf
>
>


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