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Re: Beginner's question.

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>>> After installing packages with software manager, some open up 
>>> immediately, others are accompanied by an icon but many just seem to 
>>> disappear. They are installed but there appears to be no way to run 
>>> them. I have tried terminal and package manager to no avail.
> [snip]
>> Don't you have some sort of applications/software menu system in mint? 
>> If so after an application gets installed, then it will insert an entry 
>> in that menu. 
>
> Only for GUI applications.  Command line applications will not have a
> menu entry and will need to be launched in a terminal. 

My assumption in answering - and it was lazy of me, I'm sorry - was that 
a CLI adept would not be asking such a question.

> You will need to
> know the command name(s) for that, and there is not necessarily a
> correlation to the package name.  ImageMagick is an example of that.  It
> is purely command line but no command of that name is installed.  It is
> made up of several commands such as 'convert', 'display', 'montage', and
> others.
>
> So I can see how the OP might think certain newly installed command line
> programs would "just seem to disappear" since there is neither an icon
> nor a command line program of the same name.  But they are there under
> other names.
>
> Also, some administrative programs (typically on the command line, too)
> are only in root's $PATH, not a normal user's.  So those, too, might
> "just seem to disappear" from the perspective of an ordinary user account.

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Beginner's question. Jane <J@home.com> - 2021-08-07 09:09 +1000
  Re: Beginner's question. "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2021-08-06 20:31 -0400
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  Re: Beginner's question. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-08-07 09:38 +0100
  Re: Beginner's question. Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> - 2021-08-08 17:01 +0000
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      Re: Beginner's question. "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2021-08-08 22:42 +0200
      Re: Beginner's question. Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> - 2021-08-09 17:16 +0000
    Re: Beginner's question. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-08-10 06:33 +0100
    Re: Beginner's question. Jane <jane@home.com> - 2021-09-06 20:32 +1000
      Re: Beginner's question. "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2021-09-06 12:46 +0200
        Re: Beginner's question. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-09-06 12:33 +0100
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