How?

[Niloc]

I am running Ubuntu 8.10, I installed an applucation and it says ' Place a shortcut on your desktop with /usr/bin/CastPodder as the binary executable.

For a desktop icon use the CastPodder.png in /opt/CastPodder'. How do I get the application to start??

How do I do these simple sounding tasks??

Colin

[slackula]

I apologise in advance if you have tried this, but what happens if you right click on the desktop and use the drop-down menu to browse to the application?

Also, what happens if you open a terminal and enter '/usr/bin/CastPodder' (without the ' ' , and then press the return/enter key)? Does the app start?

Be careful with capital letters, Linux systems are generally case sensitive so CastPodder, castPodder and castpodder would be three totally different things for example.

[Niloc]

Ypur apology is accepted, I had tried this and all I can do is 'create Folder, Launcher or Document', I tried 'Launcher', filled in the choices, it created an icon on the desktop but all it does is say 'no such file or directory'...

Oops, I just found out the name has been changed to 'IcePodder', so I changed it in the 'Properties' and away it went!!

Thank you for your help, you are correct, I am a clown!!

p.s, Why do they call it a 'shortcut' when it is a 'Launcher'?? I just read the 'INSTALL' file and it is 2005 so it is 3 years old...

Colin

[jackk]

Place a shortcut on your desktop

A Linux app that wants to place an icon/shortcut on the desktop ??

It was probably coded by a Windows maniac