Today, a student comes into my office. This is one of the physics summer students who are here as a result of a nation-wide selection for the brightest.
Here’s the exchange:
“I can’t run GIMP on the server.”
“Did you try typing ‘gimp’ on the command line?”
“I did, and it didn’t work.”
I sigh, and start googling for him: How to run GIMP under Linux.
“Are you sure you typed ‘gimp’ on the server? Let me check.”
I login to the server and type ‘gimp’. GIMP starts running.
“So what’s the problem?”
“Oh, I typed ‘gimp2.2’ because that’s what was on the web page I saw.”
“Ever hear of the ‘which’ or ‘locate’ commands?”
“Uh, no.”
“I think I know what you should google when you next sit at your computer.”