Oh boy- can anyone help please - I've just installed 'motion' and 'synaptic' (packet manager) on Raspbian, but I can't find where they downloaded to. How do I find them and then get them to appear on the desktop? Thanks Trian Not all packages automatically generate desktop icons or links - some are...

Is there a way to put shortcuts for both packages on the desktop? Oh, and v. dumb question - is it the 'executable' files I try to put on the desktop? "Yes" and "not really". Like you said its "shortcuts" that you want to put on the desktop, not the executable files themselves. While "synaptic" is ...

You might be also try using the dpkg command to determine details of the contents of any package. For example (I've abbreviated to output): dpkg -c curl_7.19.7-1ubuntu1.5_i386.deb drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2013-12-06 13:37 ./ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2013-12-06 13:37 ./usr/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2013-1...

The executables would normally go to /usr/bin. The packages to /var/cache/apt/archives The UNIX find command is called find (man find). Thanks Joan, I tried the 'find' cmd but I must have been misusing it as it kept coming up a blank. Is there a way to put shortcuts for both packages on the desktop...

Oh boy- can anyone help please - I've just installed 'motion' and 'synaptic' (packet manager) on Raspbian, but I can't find where they downloaded to. How do I find them and then get them to appear on the desktop?
Thanks
Trian