Can't find installed programs

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 26 Mar 2017 07:45:51 -0700, John R. Sowden wrote:
>On 03/26/2017 07:14 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>> please open a terminal, copy and paste the following, but replace
>> "foo" with the package name. Perhaps the package name is "details",
>> but the package name not necessarily is "details". Post the complete
>> output, command + output of the command.
>>
>>    p="foo"
>>    apt-cache depends $p
>>    apt-cache show    $p | grep Filename
>>    dpkg -L           $p | grep desktop
>>    dpkg -L           $p | grep -v share
>>    dpkg -L           $p | grep script
>>    dpkg -L           $p | grep py
>>
>> The Ubuntu Package Search doesn't finds a package named "details",
>> there are several paths including or ending with "details". Exact
>> not case-sensitive file names "details" are seemingly no programs.
>>
>> Is it a binary or a script?
>
>john at sentry35:~$   p="Details"
>john at sentry35:~$   apt-cache depends $p
>E: No packages found

The commands are case-sensitive. If the package name should be
"details", it can't find an installed package "Details".

[root at moonstudio ~]# p="Nano"
[root at moonstudio ~]# apt-cache depends $p 
E: No packages found
[root at moonstudio ~]# p="nano"
[root at moonstudio ~]# apt-cache depends $p 
nano
  Depends: libc6
  Depends: libncursesw5
  Depends: libtinfo5
  Conflicts: <pico>
  Suggests: spell
  Replaces: <pico>

I never used Ubuntu Software Centre. Doesn't it show you the real
package name? Is there no information about the program? Perhaps it is
a LUA, Python or whatsoever script?

I can't help you to find the real name of the program, if it
shouldn't be "details".

Dose the following Wiki or any other Wiki or help page about Sotware
Centre help you to find more details?

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCenter

Disclaimer: I didn't read the link.

Regards,
Ralf