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adlibtracker2 package

No obvious way to start program?

Asked by Benjamin Leavitt

I am trying to use adlibtracker2 on Ubuntu 20.04.
When installed via apt, there is no obvious way to start the program.
Bash does not recognize the name of the program, and a desktop entry for the application does not appear in the GUI menu.
No man page seems to exist, and the documentation available on the upstream website does not mention this issue.
Is something missing, or am I being dense?

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Bashing-om (bashing-om) said : 		#1

hello Benjamin Leavitt -

What does the package manager think ?
sudo dpkg -l adlibtracker2

Where we seek 'ii' as the status.

If it is 'ii' then from terminal what results when typing the command
adlibtracker2
?

Maybe it is not packaged for the GUI ?

-Maybe Yes-

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Benjamin Leavitt (mangledidentity) said : 		#2

Well, I feel kind of dumb. It turns out, the package is intended for command-line usage as I assumed, but not under the same name. I checked out the .deb file, and found out the application is referred to as 'adtrack2' when used.

You invoke the program by typing 'adtrack2' in bash.

Sorry to waste your time.

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Bashing-om (bashing-om) said : 		#3

Hey Benjamin Leavitt -

Glad ya got it fingered out :)

No worry as to a "waste of time" -
we are all in that learning process and every step helps -