Hello to All, Many thanks for the replies to my posts. Thank you Al for your help. It did open the programme and I could also add an icon to the desktop, very good.There are two other issues. I would like to use two other programmes I have down loaded, these are on the desktop and I have extracted them, these are;
1. /home/john/Desktop/FldigiHelp-2.0.tar.gz and 2. /home/john/Desktop/fl_logbook.2.3.bin.tgz These are the actual folders. I have tried what you suggested Dave, but no joy. The cd/temp says no such file or directory, so I have not been able to create the temporary directory in this way. If I select places/home, I can see the un-tar ed folders but cannot open log book (fl_logbook) I have also tried to open the morse and the aldo download with alt-f2 but that did not work. Further help gratefully received, John F5VLM G-QRP 12122 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/