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Where is Startup Disk Creator installed?

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Using XFCE.

I installed usb-creator, also called Startup Disk Creator using the Ubuntu software center. Where is this installed? It does not show up anywhere in the menu. In the terminal I've tried different commands like usb-creator-common, usb-creator-kde, etc. Program can not be found.

I like Linux, but this is one of those things that I think is just really sad in Linux or more specifically Ubuntu. If the software centre does not even tell you what the executable name is and where it's stored, how the hell does it expect the user to locate the application?

I suppose I could check the various bin-folders, but the executable names are sometimes unclear as to their nature.

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answered 3 Years ago saucdisr · Accepted Answer

If you know the name of the package, you can list all of it's files using dpkg -L package:

$ dpkg -L usb-creator-gtk

/usr/bin/usb-creator-gtk

/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/usbcreator/frontends/gtk/__init__.py

/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/usbcreator/frontends/gtk/frontend.py

/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/usbcreator/frontends/gtk/unitysupport.py

/usr/share/applications/usb-creator-gtk.desktop

/usr/share/doc/usb-creator-gtk/changelog.gz

/usr/share/doc/usb-creator-gtk/copyright

/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/usb-creator-gtk.svg

/usr/share/man/man8/usb-creator-gtk.8.gz

/usr/share/usb-creator/usbcreator-gtk.ui

In this case the binary is called /usr/bin/usb-creator-gtk