I'm new to Linux, but by now I've at least figured out about the whole:
./configure
make
su
make install
Stuff...
The thing that gets me is that it never indicates where it installed it to, or how to begin using it...
Generally I have to start seraching folder and menus just to find out where to go to start the darn thing.
For example I just insatlled "Kommander", and it seems like everything worked fine, but I have no idea how to start it.
I "cat"ed the README, and it said to hit Ctrl+Alt+H as the default shortcut, but I hit that and nothing happens... I'm assuming there's something somewhere that allows me to just run it...

Any suggestions?
(I'm interested how you genearlly go about finding out how to start a program after you installed it, not necessarily just for Kommander)

Thanks!

A good guess to try is typing the name of what you just installed, a lot of times that will start the program. If it's close you might be able to get it by typing whereis [name]. This will list any files that have that as part of their name. If neither of these work, the first places to look would probably be /bin, /usr/bin or /home/[user name]/bin.

Also I don't know which distro you use, but if you can use whichever package manager is with your it rather than compiling from source it might add the files to your menu, I've rarely had something I've added using apt-get or synaptic not show up in my menu.

Hey!

Thanks for the suggestions... I didn't know about the "whereis" command, and it turns out to be quite useful! I was using "locate ..." before, and that gave me so much feedback that it was hard to figure out what was important...

I'm using SuSE right now, so YaST is my option, but there's actually a good number of things that isn't in the database.

Thanks again.