How to locate a program?

Question

I installed PasswordSafe 0.93 beta by downloading its deb-package from SourceForge and have it taken care of using Ubuntu Software Center.

Now PasswordSafe asks me every time what psafe3-file to load instead of offering me a default one - as it used to be with the Windows version of it. So I thought about having a look at PasswordSafe and its (probably existing) config files and see if I can edit them appropriately. But this endeavour fails at locating the program and its related stuff.

How do I go about finding it?

actually it is - I tried which/whereis before but failed because I didn't know what is the cmd for PasswordSafe (pwsafe) - then stumbled up on it just now ... — Raffael, Feb 15 '14 at 14:45
try with the locate command in terminal, like so: locate PasswordSafe — v2r, Feb 15 '14 at 14:51

score 10 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 15 '14 at 14:35

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you open terminal and type these

  which <program_name>

or

  whereis <program_name>

alternatively use this command

 dpkg -L 'packagename'

will display the path to the the files

answered Feb 15 '14 at 14:35

Zuko

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type -f <program also works, type <program> without the -f will find a bash function. – Alexander Mills Aug 18 '18 at 19:42

How to locate a program?

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