Originally Posted by linuxeventually

If the dialcentral.desktop shortcut is broken make sure dialcentral is installed.

$ dpkg -s dialcentral | grep Status
Status: install ok installed

If that isn't the output then it didn't install correctly.

$ ls /opt/dialcentral/bin/dialcentral.py

If that file does not exist then there is your problem.

To manually start:
$ /usr/bin/run-standalone.sh /opt/dialcentral/bin/dialcentral.py &