I have downloaded a rpm to file:/home/... right clicked and clicked on install, it installed ok but I cant find how to run the program. What am I doing wrong?

What is the program? You may be able to run it by typing the program name into a console or in the run command box.

Did you install it as root?

what program?
open terminal
type in progarm name
what happens
cd /home/<wherever_you_put_it>
ls
su
<insert_password>
rpm -ivh <programname>.rpm
what happens?

The program is compupic-5.1.1063-1.i386.rpm

As ehdwuld said (and to expand)

Open a terminal
type in "su" minus the quotes and hit enter
at the prompt, type in the root password (because, of course, no one runs as root regularly )
type in "rpm -ivh compupic-5.1.1063-1.i386.rpm" minus the quotes and hit enter
when it is complete, type in "exit" and hit enter
type in "compupic" and hit enter (minus the quotes

If it fails to run, I would type in "whereis compupic" that should give you places it is installed, you could then try "path/to/directory/compupic" eg "/usr/local/compupic/compupic"

That should do it. If not, could you post any error messages you see?

Thank you XavierP
Useing "Find files" I found them in "/local", only one file opens, I click on the icon that looks as if it should open the program and nothing happens.

I will try what you have suggested tomorrow.