hello gentlemen,
i am junior and beginner for the linux operating system, and i am trying to learn and get involved in.
it is a beautiful OS, but difficult a little bit if you don't have the concept, how to work on linux.
anyway, i am working with fedora 10. everything is ok as an operating system installation.
BUT
when it is coming to the extra packages, i'm facing a little difficulty.
for example: i have downloaded the thunderbird mailbox, and it was successful. i found it in the menu and i could use it.
BUT
for the open office. i have download it from the sytem --> administration --> add/remove software. but i cannot find it in any place. even i tried to install it from the console (USING SCRIPT), it is giving me that the application already installed.

same thing happened to me with the rdesktop, i have install it, but i cannot find it to use it.

it is weird.

kindly can you advice about this issue
thank you very much and regards,

This is not wierd at all, it is the way things work. Not all programs when they install create icons for you to click on, or update the menus. In some cases you have to do it manually after the package is installed.

Open Office writer will open from a bash command prompt is you enter 'oowriter' ( wihtour the quotes ). Try that, if it launches, then the package is O.K. You will need to edit the menu, and add entries for each component you installed. Calc, Data Base Draw, etc.

Same thing for rdesktop.

To know why the icons did not get put into the menu, you would have to ask the packagers for Fedora. I run Mandriva, they get created for it.

Other things to know....

How to find a file... from a bash command prompt, as root run the command 'updatedb'. The first time you run it, it will take some time. The system will build a data base of files on your entire system. To fine a file after the database is built, at the command line enter 'locate nameoffiletobefound' You can use a partial string, you won't always know the full name of the file. It is fast, it will list the path to all matches.

Try it with oowriter, see what you find. Here is what it looks like on my system...

The binary that starts up is in /usr/bin on my system.

Hope this helps...

You may need to create the icons manually. However OO has a desktop icon command which creates the menu under Gnome. Under Debian/Ubuntu the package is called openoffice.org-debian-menus.