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Right now I chose to install the linux version of PCC2.0.11. Working perfectly so far. Next step recovering my old settings and thus altering some files like expr.cc or expr.usr. But there are they?

The configuration files you're supposed to modify are in your home directory, in a hidden directory ".pcc2", i.e. normally "/home/<user>/.pcc2". Create your expr.ini there.

In Windows, it's similar; the directory is called "PCC2" and is in "C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\PCC2". This is mentioned briefly in the documentation if you know where to look.

You're not supposed to modify the file that the installer created, neither in Windows (C:\Programs\PCC2\specs\expr.cc) nor in Linux (/usr/local/share/planets/expr.cc), but it doesn't seem too uncommon to do that in Windows.

And more important how to start pcc2? It's not listed in applications at all.

The best I could do was to have a look at my old system and using search function to locate the stuff on my linux drive. So I could find expr.cc and expr.usr. And I found this:

Name     Size     Type     Location
pcc-v2   4.9 MB   Program  /usr/local/bin/

But I'm pretty sure it is not the purpose of linux for users to find their stuff somewhere on the disk and running it manually. There is even other stuff to run (and not to run) in that folder that has nothing to do with pcc like ms-sys and some that is related to pcc like un-trn.

You're right, I didn't add that to the GUI menus. I take that as a feature request.

That aside, you're not supposed to search. /usr/local/bin is a on your $PATH by default, so all you need to do is open a shell prompt (terminal) and type "pcc-v2". /usr/local/bin is the traditional directory for programs that are not part of your distribution. If every program had its own directory, like in Windows, THEN you would have to search...

Sure, if you're used to start programs with the mouse this may have that slightly negative "run it manually" vibe. For me that's pretty normal, that's what I do all day...

Anyway, thanks for feedback with the Linux version: most feedback I got so far was for the Windows one, and my usage patterns of PCC2-under-Linux are probably not the same as most others'.

--Stefan