Disclaimer: I know absolutely nothing about Ubuntu, software center, menu of installed apps, default application finder or Synapse.
this issue is on every Debian/Ubuntu based distro
On Debian Wheezy, the install of Scid was very straightforward:
$ sudo apt-get install scid
...
$ scid
VoilĂ !
I just want to know why some software aren't detectable by the system.
Could be many reasons. Maybe they're not configured properly. Or maybe the environment isn't configured properly. Maybe something simply went wrong during the installation. We cannot guess, but we can investigate.
If you want a proper answer, do the following steps
in a new terminal window (Any existing one may contain an obsolete configuration and will confuse our investigation):
- $ dpkg -l | grep scid
- $ scid
- $ echo $PATH
- $ find $(echo $PATH | tr : " ") -name '*scid*'
You should probably paste your output in your favorite pastebin (
I recommend hastebin, because it's pretty) to avoid polluting the forum with lots of text.
Once we see the output of these commands, we can start to understand better what your problem is.