Installed .deb package won't run because there's a snap version of the package with the same name

Question

I installed bbk-cli from the .deb package

eddie@laptop:~/Downloads$ sudo apt install ./bbk-cli_1.0.0_amd64.deb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'bbk-cli' instead of './bbk-cli_1.0.0_amd64.deb'
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  bbk-cli
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/209 kB of archives.
After this operation, 503 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 /home/eddie/Downloads/bbk-cli_1.0.0_amd64.deb bbk-cli amd64 1.0.0 [209 kB]
Selecting previously unselected package bbk-cli.
(Reading database ... 292678 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../bbk-cli_1.0.0_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking bbk-cli (1.0.0) ...
Setting up bbk-cli (1.0.0) ...

So it installed correctly from what I can tell. However when I try to run it, this happens

eddie@laptop:~/Downloads$ bbk-cli

Command 'bbk-cli' not found, but can be installed with:

sudo snap install bbk-cli

I understand that I could remove it and install it via the snap, but is there a way to not use the snap but run it from the already installed package?

EDIT: I also tried installing using dpkg with the same result

eddie@laptop:~/Downloads$ sudo dpkg -i ./bbk-cli_1.0.0_amd64.deb
Selecting previously unselected package bbk-cli.
(Reading database ... 292678 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack ./bbk-cli_1.0.0_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking bbk-cli (1.0.0) ...
Setting up bbk-cli (1.0.0) ...
eddie@laptop:~/Downloads$ bbk-cli

Command 'bbk-cli' not found, but can be installed with:

sudo snap install bbk-cli

EDIT II at the request of @user535733:

eddie@laptop:~/Downloads$ sudo dpkg -l bbk-cli
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version      Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-======================================
ii  bbk-cli        1.0.0        amd64        Measurement client for Bredbandskollen

Answer 1

You installed some bbk-cli package, and appear to expect that that will give you an executable of the same name, installed in one of the directories of your path. That is not necessarily the case, and in this case, that indeed does not happen.

The symptoms you describe indicate that

1. The package you downloaded from some unspecified source indeed installs correctly

2. The package does not install an executable bbi-cli.

   What the name of the executable is, that is something you will need to find out from the documentation. Alternatively, the command dpkg -L bbi-cli will list all the installed files. Files installed in directories in the system path, typically /usr/bin, but could also be elsewhere, are executables you can run by typing their name on the command line.

Answer 2

I have just downloaded the .deb file from this website into a new folder bbk_cli in the home directory

I then opened Nautilus, went to the bbk_cli folder, right clicked and selected "Open with Software Install", entered my password and it installed with no problem.

Then I typed bbk_cli in a terminal and this is the output (please note the underscore is not the same as a minus sign)

raffles@raffles-MS-7917:~$ bbk_cli
Start: 2022-07-17 18:36:40
Network operator: GVA-Canalbox
Support ID: mmo207d12952
Latency:     178.777 ms
Download:     15.073 Mbit/s
Upload:       14.868 Mbit/s
Measurement ID: 417725462

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