How to find and run newly installed programs?

Very Newbie question here.

I went to the add/remove programs to download the HPlip gui, which installed fine. Now, how do I actually RUN the program. I don't want to put an icon on the desktop, just want to know how to find and run newly installed programs....

Thx

 

Not sure of the best way to find it for any new program, but for yours this says hp-toolbox. There's a chance that you've got a different version, as we only get fedora 8 repositories

 

Software comes in "RPM" packages. The RPM database knows all the files related to each package.

To list the programs in the hplip-gui package:

Code:

rpm -ql hplip-gui | grep '/bin'

In general you might not initially know the package name. You can list the recent installations:

Code:

tail /var/log/yum.log

Or start from a list of ALL packages:

Code:

rpm -qa

And either page through it tediously:

Code:

rpm -qa | less

or narrow it down experimentally until you find what you are looking for:

Code:

rpm -qa | grep -i '^hp'

Aha, there's hplip-gui.

 

Thanks, amturnip, a perfect tutorial!