open a package in the terminal

open a package in the terminal

[Gottfried]

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Hi,

it seems, I lost an email, which I wanted to write.

When using my MATE Terminal Emulator
I can enter the names of the packages like:

"gedit" or "pluma"(MATE) and so on

and it opens gedit or pluma and so on,

but the package "musescore" doesn’t open.

Why does bash not find this package?


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Kind regards

Gottfried


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Re: open a package in the terminal

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice]

Hi Gottfried,

The project (≈package) named 'musescore' distributes a binary (≈command) named 'mscore':

  ~ λ ls $(guix build musescore)/bin
  mscore

Don't ask me why they didn't call it 'musescore', but in general package names do not map 1:1 to binary names.  That's why peeking in the /{s,}bin directories is helpful.

An obvious example is 'coreutils', which provides most of the commands you use daily, but none named 'coreutils'.

Kind regards,

T G-R

Sent on the go.  Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

Re: open a package in the terminal

[Gottfried]

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Hi,

1.
in entering "mscore" the package "Musescore" really opened in my MATE 
Terminal

2.
> That's why peeking in the /{s,}bin directories is helpful.

In my /bin folder there is only one sh (script/programm). Nothing else.
So, in what folder should I look to find the binary names?
Or with which command I can check?
I have got Guix SD

3.
If I enter:
>   ~ λ ls $(guix build musescore)/bin

than the package "musescore" will be downloaded, but it doesn’t show the 
name "mscore"

thanks for help

Kind regards

Gottfried


Am 12.02.23 um 15:51 schrieb Tobias Geerinckx-Rice:
> Hi Gottfried,
> 
> The project (≈package) named 'musescore' distributes a binary (≈command) named 'mscore':
> 
>    ~ λ ls $(guix build musescore)/bin
>    mscore
> 
> Don't ask me why they didn't call it 'musescore', but in general package names do not map 1:1 to binary names.  That's why peeking in the /{s,}bin directories is helpful.
> 
> An obvious example is 'coreutils', which provides most of the commands you use daily, but none named 'coreutils'.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> T G-R
> 
> Sent on the go.  Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

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