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Just recently installed Calculate 12 and went back and tried to install freecell. It tells me that it has installed but I am unable to find where it was installed. I have tried reinstalling it again and still it doesn’t show up. What do I have to do to play the game? Thanks, Larry

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Hi Larry,

Do I understand correctly that this is games-board/xfreecell?

In this case, run:

 # equery f games-board/xfreecell
 * Searching for xfreecell in games-board ...
 * Contents of games-board/xfreecell-1.0.5b:
/usr
/usr/games
/usr/games/bin
/usr/games/bin/xfreecell
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/xfreecell-1.0.5b
/usr/share/doc/xfreecell-1.0.5b/CHANGES.bz2
/usr/share/doc/xfreecell-1.0.5b/README.bz2
/usr/share/doc/xfreecell-1.0.5b/mshuffle.txt.bz2
/usr/share/games
/usr/share/games/xfreecell
/usr/share/games/xfreecell/MSNumbers
/usr/share/man
/usr/share/man/man6
/usr/share/man/man6/xfreecell.6.bz2

Here we see that the toys do not have icons (as there is no path /usr/share/applications/). It can be run from the console or by pressing Alt+F2 and typing:

/usr/games/bin/xfreecell

or

xfreecell
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Thanks Alex. Worked like a charm. I had it installed, I just didn’t know how to start it.