How to install a application on Ubuntu Linux?
Monday, May 2nd, 2011 at
12:11
how do you install a program on Ubuntu in a terminal. Is there any easier way then installing it with a script??? help me?????
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there are a couple of other options you can let a friend access your computer remotly and do it for you or there is CNR that has been ported to ubuntu but the package manager is pretty easy maybe getting a book from barnes and nobles would help with that
Unless your program is in the package manager you use (Synaptic is the Ubuntu default located at System>Administration>Synaptic Package Manager OR you can goto Applications>Add/Remove…) then the only way is to run the script.
It has package manager(maybe in your version add/remove programs) to install or download applications
Just open it, search for a software, and download it
Of course there are. You’re looking for apt-*, with super cow powers.
To find a package, you can search for it in the package database on your computer:
# apt-cache search <query>
where query could be an application name like ‘firefox’ or a word in its description like ‘browser’. Once you have identified the name of the package you want, install it using apt-get which must be run using sudo:
# sudo apt-get install firefox
which will prompt for your password and install the package for you, including any dependencies.
Don’t be discouraged by people telling you it cannot be done, just about everything you can do in the GUI (and lots you cannot) can be done at the command line.