Installed gtoaster. Cant find it!

[dsalmon9]

I installed gtoaster, the cd burning software into RH Linux 7.2 via RPM. It appears to have installed fine. The problem is that I cannot seem to find how to start the program. Nothing was placed in any of the program list for me to click. How do I find where an application has been installed? How can I start this app now that I have installed it?

[Hayl]

probably "gtoaster" at the command prompt will start it.

to locate it, either use your RPM database app to look up what files it installed, or use the whereis or lcate command.

whereis gtoaster

[dsalmon9]

Thanks...I used the gnome search tool. Im also going to try your reccommendation. I'd like to learn to do some of these sorts of things from the command line. Is there a way for me to put some sort of shortcut to the application in any of the panel menus or the main menu? Thanks again.

[mdwatts]

Use the Gnome menu editor to add a entry to the menu's.

?? Right click on the foot and select edit menu ?? (I'm a KDE user)

[joelc]

to find a file from the command line you would use either the locate or the find commands. locate is much faster, since it works off of an index rather than search the file system, but it's not necessarily up to date. The simplest way to update the locate index is with the slocate -u command (usually need to be root?). Many people will have a cron process to do that on a regular basis. In your case, it might not have helped since you were looking for qtoaster instead of gtoaster, but if you didn't know to search for gtoaster just toaster might have been enough.

[dsalmon9]

Thanks for the advice. I've gotten into the program. Thus far, it seems to only work in 'su', so i use the command line to start it. It is the Beta5 release. I am noticing that there is a 6 release available. Does anyone reccommend the upgrade? Any other burner frontend for Gnome better or no longer in Beta release?

My burner is a usb burner and it seems only root is capable of scanning the machine properly to recongize the burner. Im kinda learning as I go along here. I had it burn an mp3 cd successfully, I've quickly picked up how it works so I think Im gonna stick with this one.

Burning an audio cd has been a problem though, i think there's a dependency problem with the cd at once feature required to burn an audio session. I will try to downlod the reccomended 'cdao' program. It's a .tar.gz file. Off to figuring out how to install it. I'll keep you all posted on the progress. Thanks for the help

[serz]

Then take a look to this:

Newbie Help File: Compiling Software (http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Software/Compiling_Software.html)

That will help you :)