I am a bit of a newbie in Linux but am really enjoying it, I use Xandros 3.0. I find that the easiest way for me to install software is using apt-get install. This usually works but sometimes it installs the application but I cannot find an icon to lauch the application. An example is Evolution. I did a search for files with the name "evolution" and found a file that lauched the app when I clicked on it. When I installed Firefox with apt-get it created an icon on the desktop as well as under Applications>Internet. Why doesn't Evolution do the same? Am I doing something wrong?

Cobus

The apt-get package will contain the files that get installed on your system, including icons and symlinks, and it will detail where those files get installed to. Not all packages have the same contents, i.e. they don't all contain icons and symlinks to the application to be added to your desktop. In fact, I'd go as far as to say that it's quite rare for a package to install a symlink on your desktop.

So, to sum up, if you want symlinks on your desktop, it might be an idea to learn how to do it yourself. As far as icons go most are found in /%KDEHOME$/share/icons/ where %KDEHOME% is the path to the KDE installation directory. In SuSE this is /opt/kde3 but I believe most other distros install it under the /usr directory.

If you find you have no idea where they are just search for the firefox/mozilla .png file with this command at the shell

That should give you some directories to look in.

Or if that returns nothing then try