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Re: Beginner's question.

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On 2021-08-08 1:01 p.m., Jim Jackson wrote:
> On 2021-08-06, Jane <J@home.com> wrote:
>> I'm not actually a beginner but I'm sure plenty who are have come across 
>> this problem many times...and I cannot find an explanation anywhere.
>>
>> 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.
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> 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.  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
    Re: Beginner's question. Bud Frede <frede@mouse-potato.com> - 2021-08-08 06:11 -0400
      Re: Beginner's question. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-08-10 06:33 +0100
    Re: Beginner's question. Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood <phaywood@alphalink.com.au> - 2021-08-11 17:19 +1000
      Re: Beginner's question. Bud Frede <frede@mouse-potato.com> - 2021-09-07 07:36 -0400
        Re: Beginner's question. Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood <phaywood@alphalink.com.au> - 2021-09-08 22:54 +1000
          Re: Beginner's question. "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2021-09-08 23:54 +0200
          Re: Beginner's question. Bud Frede <frede@mouse-potato.com> - 2021-09-12 05:24 -0400
  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
    Re: Beginner's question. John-Paul Stewart <jpstewart@personalprojects.net> - 2021-08-08 15:46 -0400
      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
      Re: Beginner's question. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-09-06 12:31 +0100
      Re: Beginner's question. Bud Frede <frede@mouse-potato.com> - 2021-09-07 07:34 -0400

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