When I click Install from Ubuntu Software Center from web it asks to chose an application. Where do I find Ubuntu Software Center app?
2 Answers
A couple of useful tips could help with this and similar questions.
If you look in the folder /usr/share/applications
you will see a series of .desktop files. You should hopefully see something that you would recognise in terms of the application name.
In this case - the desktop file is ubuntu-software-center.desktop
Have a quick look inside the file (it is a text file) and you will see a line that starts Exec=
- that command line is where your application is located.
In this case - /usr/bin/software-center
An alternative is to use the following technique:
type which
followed by the first few characters of the software you are attempting to locate - e.g. soft
. Then press Tab. Hopefully you'll see the name of the application you are attempting to run. Pressing return after which software-center
will give the same value as the Exec=
statement above.
I usually just have it use xdg-open
for most everything, since this will know what to open the files in.
So just navigate to -> File System -> usr -> bin -> then find xdg-open
or /usr/bin/xdg-open
Find it once and you can use it for a variety of files.