Installs but does not appear

[Andres Muniz]

Possibly related to #1838454 and the project Issue https://github.com/openrocket/openrocket/issues/537

>$ sudo apt install openrocket

> ....
> 2020-05-07 15:14:46 (970 KB/s) - ‘./OpenRocket-15.03.jar’ saved [22211882/22211882]
>
> FINISHED --2020-05-07 15:14:46--
> Total wall clock time: 23s
> Downloaded: 1 files, 21M in 22s (970 KB/s)
> cleaning up temporary directory /tmp/openrocket.5ng9fiwOd7 ...
> ERROR: wget failed to download
> Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-1ubuntu3.18.04.2) ...
> Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2ubuntu0.1) ...
> Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-11ubuntu1.1) ...
> Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60ubuntu1) ...
>

> $ sudo apt install openrocket
> [sudo] password for andres:
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> openrocket is already the newest version (15.03).

Then try to run it:

> $ openrocket
> openrocket: command not found

Is it also possible to uninstall as

Using Dash also does not bring it up. I expected it to run since it seems to be installed according to apt install.

Machine: $ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS
Release: 18.04

$ apt-cache policy openrocket
openrocket:
  Installed: 15.03
  Candidate: 15.03
  Version table:
 *** 15.03 500
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Andres Muniz (andresmp)]

some additional information from the debian package:

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/openrocket

And also, just to say that I really admire people like the maintainer of this package:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bdale_Garbee

Thank you for your hard work for the community.