Execute program from terminal?

Netrunner Rolling Rolling 2016.01
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I installed an antivirus program trial (not through Pacman). [I know antivirus is quite optional on Linux, but I thought it may be useful to scan my Windows partition from Linux.] In any case, it appears to have installed correctly, and put an icon in the menu. However, when I click on it, nothing happens.

So, I would like to try launching the program from the command line so that I can see any message returned. How do I go about this? Do I need to change to the path in which the program is installed and then enter the name of the executable file?

Thanks for any directions!

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Which AV program is it?

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Whats the name of the antivirus program?
You can also right click on the icon in the menu and choose “Edit”, then see how its supposed to launch.

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Thanks for replies. The program is ESET NOD32.

I’m not at my machine now. I will take a look at the info in the right click menu when back.

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To save you some time, this maybe helpful:
This application is not written for systemd, you will need to make a unit file for it:

Add this to your /lib/systemd/system/esetd.service

    [Unit]
    Description=ESET Scanner Daemon
    Before=multi-user.target

    [Service]
    ExecStart=/opt/eset/esets/sbin/esets_daemon
    ExecReload=/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID
    KillMode=process
    Restart=always
    Type=forking

    [Install]
    WantedBy=multi-user.target

Now start and enable the service at boot:

sudo systemctl start esetd.service
sudo systemctl enable esetd.service

Then you can start the gui with this command:

/opt/eset/esets/bin/esets_gui

There is also this in the AUR, but i’m not sure if it builds atm:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/esets/

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Thanks very much for the information. That’ll be very helpful :shy: