Where are Dia diagram shapes located on Linux?

I recently installed this wonderful diagram creation tool Dia, and also downloaded the AWS Diagram icons in SVG format.

I tried to locate *.shape (because all of them need to end in *.shape) but couldn't find anything, only unrelated files.

Does anyone know where Dia *.shape are located? I really want to add all AWS Icons at once, instead of adding them one by one from Dia UI.

Solution 1:

How to find specific files, installed by applications

Found them on Ubuntu 16.04 in /usr/share/dia/shapes. Ubuntu or Lubuntu shouldn't make a difference. You can find out where files are installed with the help of

dpkg-query -S .shape

to look for specific patterns. This shows that all .shape files are in /usr/share/dia/shapes. They are grouped however in many subdirectories.

Note however that for each and every .shape file, there is a corresponding .png file, most likely to represent the shape in the menu:

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See also man dpkg-query

   -S, --search filename-search-pattern...
          Search  for  packages  that own files corresponding to the given
          pattern.  Standard shell wildcard characters can be used in  the
          pattern,  where  asterisk (*) and question mark (?) will match a
          slash, and blackslash (\) will be used as an escape character.

          If the first character in the filename-search-pattern is none of
          ‘*[?/’  then it will be considered a substring match and will be
          implicitly surrounded by ‘*’ (as in  *filename-search-pattern*).
          If  the  subsequent  string contains any of ‘*[?\’, then it will
          handled like a glob pattern, otherwise any trailing ‘/’ or  ‘/.’
          will be removed and a literal path lookup will be performed.

          This  command  will  not  list extra files created by maintainer
          scripts, nor will it list alternatives.

To find out where an application installed its files, use (in this case):