Commands for new programs.

Godofgrunts · 2009-10-07 04:17:12

I've never been able to figure this out. Say I use Yaourt to download glade.

Well for yaourt it's just

yaourt -S glade

Now when I go to call glade from a terminal it doesn't exist. So here is my question.

Is there anyway to tell what the command to call a program is or is there anyway to search for it?

hbekel · 2009-10-07 04:31:27

This should do it:

pacman -Ql <package> | grep bin/.

In the case of glade, you might also just

gla<tab>

Last edited by hbekel (2009-10-07 04:34:53)

antenna · 2009-10-07 04:33:04

You can do

pacman -Ql packagename

This shows you all the files the package installed, it's fairly easy to tell the executables from there based on install location.

loafer · 2009-10-07 05:00:22

You could also try "which glade" or "locate glade".

pseup · 2009-10-07 05:34:33

Also, using `rehash` in Zsh or `hash -f` (I think) in Bash will rebuild the hash tables and add your new program to the list so you can execute it without full paths.

StanIsTheMan · 2009-10-07 09:41:06

Tab completion is your best friend .....

Godofgrunts · 2009-10-09 06:43:32

hbekel wrote:

This should do it:
pacman -Ql <package> | grep bin/.
In the case of glade, you might also just
gla<tab>

Ah thank you so much. This was the perfect solution.

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Commands for new programs.

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Re: Commands for new programs.

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