Where is Ubuntu storing installed programs

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I am using Ubuntu and when I click on a program to download Firefox asks me  What should firefox do with this file   And in the  Open with  I would like to find a program  Package installer   The problem is - I don t know where to look for  Where is the program stored  I installed it using Ubuntu Software Center

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They are usually stored in the following folders    bin   usr bin   sbin   usr sbin    If you re not sure  use the which command      which firefox  usr bin firefox

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If you are looking for the folder such as brushes  curves  etc  you can try    home  lt username gt   gimp-2 8  This folder will contain all the gimp folders   Good Luck

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for some applications  for example google chrome  they store it under  opt   you can follow the above instruction using dpkg -l to get the correct naming then dpkg -L  to get the detail    hope it helps

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Just for an addition reference to the above answers  I can not use dpkg -L to find the correct path for cuda  See the results I got from dpkg -L    dpkg -L cuda     usr  usr share  usr share doc  usr share doc cuda  usr share doc cuda copyright  usr share doc cuda changelog Debian gz   the correct path is  usr local cuda    ll  usr local   grep cuda  lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    8 Oct 20 18 45 cuda - gt  cuda-9 0   drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 Oct 20 18 44 cuda-9 0    Btw  I did install cuda by the command of   dpkg -i xx cuda xxx deb

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to find the program you want you can run this command at terminal   find   usr-name  your program

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Simply  type the command      whereis  program name

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If you installed the package with the Ubuntu package manager  apt  synaptic  dpkg or similar   you can get information about the installed package with  dpkg -L  lt package name gt

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