<div dir="ltr">2008/8/27 Young <<a href="mailto:tuxman@knology.net">tuxman@knology.net</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> So where is it? See below. TIP: After installing a program with Synaptic it's a good habit to search (again) for the title, then right click on the package title, select properties, then installed files. That will show you what files were installed and where they were put. There are many Synaptic (and probably Add/Remove) programs that disappear after install. (Is Add/Remove really the name for that?) --------------------- BEGIN RANT And then, if you search for these newly installed programs that don't appear on any menu, they won't show up. At least not if you use the search that's accessed thru the panel or the Places menu. You know the one. It says search for files in its title bar, and has the Find button in the lower right. The one that apparently has no name. And no documentation. There must be some rules about how it searches; it would real nice to know what they are, because I can't get it to do most of what I expect it to do. Now, if it only had a name, I might be able to search for it; or should I say Find? And Tracker Search Tool. Well, at least it has a name. It doesn't do anything, but it has a name. It lets you type in a search string, and then immediately and proudly tells you "Your search returned no results." </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">I assume there must be an index that has to be built, and maintained, but how?</blockquote><div></div><div>That's strange. The same thing happens to me, even after a reinstallation, but on my wife's computer it works perfectly! Well, not perfectly, but it works. It finds stuff, but some of the found stuff doesn't show up.</div> <div></div><div>I would be interested to know how to get this thing work.</div><div></div><div>J.R. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> SUGGESTION: On these unnamed, or otherwise useless "out of the box" programs, that are pre-installed, it would seem that the simple addition of a help button that at would least reveal the name of the program/utility, or actually lead you to useful information about the program, would be an extremely high priority, a very high "bang for the buck" ratio. Very easy to create, and very useful. To Make a Link, or not to Make a Link: What possible reason could there be to deny a user the ability to Make a Link to a document/directory/program which they can open and use if they navigate to it the hard way? What are the rules? Why have these limitations that don't exist in other OSs? And don't tell me the convoluted logic of the story about permissions. It's an attitude problem. If Ubuntu really wants to be useful for the masses, these are just two of the many things that have to be fixed. END RANT -------------------------- /usr/share/doc/rutebook/ is where Synaptic properties told me was. The HTML front page is: /usr/share/doc/rutebook/rute.html when double clicked it opened in my browser as: file:///usr/share/doc/rutebook/html/rute.html which you can then bookmark. The PDF version is in /usr/share/doc/rutebook/rute.pdf.gz It would be really nice if you could make a link to this, but you can't. And you can't extract it either. So, copy it to your chosen place, then extract it if you want, and put it where you want to now, and even Make a Link if you want. -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote> </div>