Lost and found???

[raid517]

Ok this is a bugbrear that has annoyed me for weeks. I downloaded a program called downloader for x, compliled it and installed it normally. Now however I have no idea what the installed file name is or how to invoke the program. I read the doccumention - and no where does it mention the file name, the installation directory, or how to get the program to run. If I at least knew one of these I might be able to figure out how to use it properly.

I need this program badly, as it is basically a replacement for programs such as FlashGet and Getright etc. These are programs that, since I'm on a modem and they offer full resume ability, I am finding it very hard to live without.

Downloader for X also has this ability - and much more besides. It is on the top 10 most requested list on Tucows, Download.com Linux and Mandrake 9.1 requests list. So all in all it must be a fairly cool program.

I am aware that most programs are stored in the /usr/bin directory and that running them is usually just a matter of typing thier name at the run dialogue or at the command prompt. However, as I said since I don't know what the installed programs name is, finding it and running it is near on impossible.

This has happend several times in Linux, poor ducumentation, or often no documentation at all leaves one scratching their heads over what to do or how to use much of the software that they install.

If anyone is willing or able to download what is nontheless still a very nice program, you can get it at:

http://www.krasu.ru/soft/chuchelo/download.php3

If you can find it after its installed and get it to work, please let me know how you did it.

Regards,

Q

[raid517]

You can read all about what it does here. It even looks pretty too:

http://www.krasu.ru/soft/chuchelo/

[Choozo]

The programname is most likely 'd4x' as that is the name of the source file package.
Have a look into the Makefile and see what gets copied into either /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin or /bin

[scott_R]

Look at commands like 'locate', 'apropos', and 'which' to locate files throughout your system, using the 'man' command. (I.e., 'man locate' for more info on these commands.)

[raid517]

Sadly D4X is not the program name, and those other commands are only useful if I know the name of the program I am looking for. :( I think developers must often expect you to have some kind of psychic ability when installing programs in Linux. An indication of the actual program name would be a good start.

Q

[mdwatts]

Have a look through the Makefile as Choozo already suggested.

You should be able to find the executable name and where it was installed to.

[mdwatts]

Since your distro is rpm based, I would suggest you download and use checkinstall so you can use commands such as

rpm -ql packagename

to display all the files installed by the rpm package.

Search in the 'How I did it' forum for checkinstall as another member posted about it recently.

I've been using checkinstall for quite sometime now and it's one of the first apps I install on a new installation. It replaces 'make install'

./configure
make
checkinstall

It then creates a rpm package from 'make install' and installs the resulting rpm.

[KeeperChris]

The name of the executable is nt ( The application used to be called NetThief )

[raid517]

Jeeze... Thanks guy... You would think the developer might want to let you know this, but it seems he forgot. Thanks! It looks great too... That's one less reason again to start Windows.... :)

Q

Ps how do you set it up to catch clicks? I assume it works with Mozilla, but I only have Gallion - as mozilla kept breaking on me... I set up the option to motitor for certain file types, but maybe I'm missing something...