Or type the name of the software in the search box in the top right corner which is what we'll be using. I'm as amazed as you, but there is indeed crap software for Ubuntu, :- so just click the crap you want, click on "Install", wait a bit and done! To remove software using this method , click on the "installed" button on the second screen shot, click the crap you want to uninstall and click the "Uninstall" button!
And if the software is not there, don't go downloading it from somewhere else and install it using some of the more advanced features below! You're a beginner! This is still kind of familiar: you can use the mouse , but it's like you're back in before the WWW was invented.
And now comes the first hurdle: RTFM for aptitude by typing:. This is important! Download and install a. Install a PPA: clearly follow instructions. Probably a developer telling you this and he knows nothing about installing and maintaining a stable system without any problems , but has the coolest stuff on the planet!
Depending on your point of view to be embraced with love or to be avoided like the plague. So if you do download and build from source , use CheckInstall instead of make install to be able to remove this software more easily in the future, like in this example regardless of what the developer says!
Sometimes it is easy to install a software directly from the terminal. You can do so by typing in terminal:. If a software isn't present in Ubuntu software or is an older version than the latest official release, you can add a PPA a software repository and install software from there.
You can add a PPA in your Ubuntu by typing this in terminal:. There are some software such as Google Chrome which are present as an executable. You can download their executable DEB files and run them by double clicking or through terminal by typing:.
Some applications such as netbeans does not come as DEB file, but as a. You can run them in terminal by typing:. A new type of software packaging called "Snaps" is also present which is a collection of the software and its dependencies in a single file. It is a single, distro independent setup for installing a software.
You can find them in the Ubuntu software. Yes, there is an alternative for Windows. Double clicking on such a file will run the installer. First ensure that the CD does contain the applications; sometimes it just brings some info about the apps and a link you can follow to do the installation through the Software Center. If the applications are, in fact, on the the CD, then search in the CD folders to find the applications as. You can also install them using a command line method.
Rename it to. You can find that information by running. Go to properties and permit the file to run as a program, then just double click on it and you will open the installer. Double click on it and extract everything to a folder of your desire, into this folder you may find an icon with the program name, just double click on it to start the program.
Go to properties and permit it to run as a program, and then double click on it to start the installer. Note: This was written for a more specific question , but it covers techniques that apply here too. If I am not mistaken, the chip magazine only offers installers for Windows. You should be able to run these with software called "WINE".
And: the software-center is the 'best' way to get software for Ubuntu I think. As we already know modern Synaptic is buggy, it often and ineffective rebuilds search index see bug and discussion on community. You can install it with sudo apt-get install muon.
Single deb-files may be installed from GUI with gdebi-gtk which is located in gdebi package - install it with sudo apt-get install gdebi. Standard usage scenario: download some deb-file, open its location in file-manager, do right-click on it and select Open with GDebi Package Installer option for installation. GDebi is useful in terminal too, here exists gdebi command sudo apt-get install gdebi-core.
Standard usage scenario: download some deb-file, go to its folder, install it with dependencies by executing the following command: sudo gdebi program. Sometimes software is not packaged in official Ubuntu repositories. If a package relies on dependencies that are not on the system, dpkg returns an error. GDebi is a simple tool for installing local deb packages. Apart from installing the specified file, it also identifies all the required dependencies and automatically downloads and installs them using apt.
First, download the tool as it as it is not available on Ubuntu by default:. Open the file manager, and locate the package. In most cases, you can find it in Downloads. Doing so opens a new dialogue box with a list of Recommended Applications.
The installer loads the deb package and shows the software description if available and whether all the dependencies are satisfied. Click on Install Package , type in the password, and click Authenticate to start the installation. How to run sudo from Dolphin? How to install VMWare without using a shell?
How to find out what kind of file it is? Why sudo? Why is plain sudo okay here, when the installer is graphical? Although it's generally recommended to avoid running a graphical program with sudo program preferring gksudo program or sudo -H program , in this case it should be fine: The VMware Player installer, and executable installers in general, are unlikely to attempt to write configuration files to the home directory of the user running them.
And even if they did, the configuration files would pertain to the installer itself--they wouldn't prevent programs from being run normally by the limited user because you're unlikely to want to run such an installer as a non-root user. Community Bot 1. Eliah Kagan Eliah Kagan k 51 51 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. It varies for different bundle files. VMware Installer additional Options. This was suggested by thusitha sumanadasa in a comment to the other answer - or does it rarely make a difference whether you use bash or sh?
The Overflow Blog. Who owns this outage? Building intelligent escalation chains for modern SRE. Podcast Who is building clouds for the independent developer? Manual download:. Sometimes, software is not available in the repositories, and you have to go to a website to download it. If you are able to download a file with a. After you download the. You can run it directly in that program you can also download the.
After Ubuntu Software Center loads, click Install to install the. You'll be prompted for your password. Go ahead and enter it if you trust the source you downloaded the file from.
Pretty soon your application should be ready to use. Last resorts:. As we've seen with Skype, sometimes you can also find a.
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