First off, the Ubuntu Software Centre and the Package Manager are two separate things - there are some programs that belong to both, but not everything does. (For the most part, for instance, if something can be paid for in USC, it's not going to be available in one of the repositories)
In the specific case of scid
, it is indeed an apt
package, but just because that is the case, doesn't mean that it will necessarily install a shortcut to the Dash when you download it. You do, however, have a couple of alternatives for running it:
- Run from a terminal, as you already have, by opening up a terminal and typing
scid
;
- Open the run prompt by pressing Alt + F2, and type
scid
there;
- Create your own shortcut to put in the Dash.
This last one can be done quite easily using the alacarte
program. Type sudo apt-get install alacarte
into a terminal. Once it has installed, type alacarte
to open.
Once it has opened, click the "New Item" button on the right. As a command you should type scid
, for the name you type whatever you want to call the shortcut (most likely Scid
.) In addition, you can choose a custom icon by clicking the small box in the top-left of the properties prompt. As a suggestion, you can use for example one of the images in /usr/share/scid/html/bitmaps
- if you browse there you will see a series of icons representing each chess piece (more generally speaking, you should be able to choose pretty much any image to go here, but you will want it to be something small for an icon). Click OK, close Alacarte and your new shortcut should be in the Dash now.
If you want to edit the entry you have created later on, open alacarte
again. Your shortcut will be in the "Other" section to the left of the window.
scid
. The question however is why some software are not detectable