4

After a installation via aptitude, how does one actually run the program? (via nautilus or even terminal)

for example, i'm now trying to use a program called pulseview. for this i installed a package called sigrok using sudo apt-get install sigrok

sigrok is already in the repository. The sigrok package also contains pulseview. I believe sigrok is the CLI and pulseview the GUI, but that assumption could be wrong.

The installation worked perfectly, but how do I now run the program?

What I have tried

  • I first searched for the application, but didn't find it. I also tried to find it via Software Centre but no luck there :(

  • I then tried to see if installation actually worked by doing the same again. It informed me that the latest version was already installed. then i thought i might need to install pulseview seperately, via aptitude. but also on that i got informed that the latest version was already installed.

  • So tried (sudo) ./sigrok and pulseview but no such file or directory (as one would expect).

Sorry to ask someting, which will probably be so obvious, but when I search for topics the explanation stops after the install line and no added info on how to run it. I actually thought I had made a similar topic before, but even in that topic there was no answer on this part.

Thanks in advance.

Nathan Smith
  • 257
Matthieu Kints van
  • 491

2 Answers2

6

Sigrok is a metapackage which pulls in pulseview, the GUI (as you thought), and sigrok-cli, the command-line interface to sigrok. To run the GUI, (located in /usr/bin/pulseview) it should suffice to run pulseview (not ./pulseview) because /usr/bin is on your search path.

Nonny Moose
  • 2,315
3

As Nonny Moose commented, when you install a new package via apt or aptitude, unless you deliberately install the package elsewhere, it will install to the default location (/usr/bin and /usr/local/bin are quite common). This path is included in what's called your PATH.

When you run a command from your terminal, it will first check your PATH for what you are looking for. If you specify a path (as you were doing with ./my_file), it means "Look in this directory and run this file".

As you can see in this example, I asked my system to tell me where exactly it would find sigrok if I asked, to which it tells me where it looked and failed to find it (because I don't have it installed).

$ ~: which sigrok
/usr/bin/which: no sigrok in (/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/home/user/bin)
Nathan Smith
  • 257