Installing Programs in Linux | Windows to Linux
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- Опубликовано: 9 июл 2024
- In this video, I go over installing programs in Linux when switching from Windows to Linux. I am going over Software Store, Terminal Installs, and Compiling programs.
1. Software store GUI
2. Terminal apt install
3. Compiling from GitHub .
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Video Idea related to new users:
When I first started using *Nix desktops, I got pulled into using things like PPA and AUR. Those are summarily BAD ideas IMO. We didn't have Flat and Snap back then, but we do now!
Maybe do a vid on the dangers of such things (AUR/PPA).If you're targeting new users, they're primarily on Ubuntu...
If you google "how to install...xxx...on Ubuntu," it's basically just crap websites, telling new users to install bad PPA's.Just a thought brah.
Love the channel. Congrats and keep it up!
P.S. Another vid idea: Manjaro IS NOT for new users.
You probably know this but when you have [Y/n] or [y/N] choice in the terminal the capital later means it's the default choice and that it will be chosen if you just hit Enter without typing anything. You don't have to type capital Y or N, you can just type lower case letter or nothing if it's capital. Also if you type something else it will either cancel or just choose the default choice depending on the program.
Everyday, there is something new about linux that i can learn
That's pretty epic. I love pressing enter, it's my favorite key.
Your channel is one of the reasons that I felt comfortable finally switching over completely. Thanks you Chris
KDE5 tip: In Dolphin press F4 to open half-terminal window for current directory. (and press Shift+F4 to open full new terminal)
SWEET!! :)
Splendid
Good video Chris! This a great series for new Linux users. There are not a lot of solid, easy to digest tutorials out there. You are really doing a wonderful service for the Linux community. Awesome job! Looking forward to future content. 👍
You are helping us very much with this series! :)
Now I will wait for part 10 "how to hack your neighbour's windows os"
and install Linux instead
Excellent video! This series is so helpful to new users! I wish I’d had something like this when I started using Linux. Thank you, Chris!
But, should one part maybe dicuss the diffrence between the distros. It's a big part of a new users problem.
@@raffeboy02 That would be a good idea, especially as some distros are more "what's the point of them" than anything!
Thank you!
@@raffeboy02 he already discussed it in the very first part of this series. Distro doesn't matter that much, if you know how linux works, but if you are new to linux, it's good to start with something popular, so when you run into some issue, there will be high chance somebody already described the issue and solution somewhere, or you can ask many other users. Once you know a bit more how linux is designed and how it works, you can bend any distro into anything you wish (but sometimes it may be more simpler and efficient just to install other distro, to have already base which is closer to what is your final vision). But as somebody new to linux, you will have lot to explore with any distro, before you will run hard into some subtle differences between them.
@@raffeboy02 Check his channel. He has covered everything imaginable and continues to add to it! He's the GURU!
This is probably the best Linux tutorial series on RUclips. ty
Once again, a well done tutorial.
Bro, I've learned so much from your videos and I've been using linux for 10 years.
The first thing I ever tried to install in Linux was VLC Media Player...but my personal machine had no internet at the time. You would have laughed your butt off watching me run back and forth between my computer and the family computer with a flash drive, downloading all these cryptic-looking files and seeing what Yum was going to tell me I needed next.
I've learned a lot in ten years :D
I know the feeling. Ubuntu 16.04 or so was incompatible with my WiFi adaptor, I didn't have a network cable, and it was Sunday morning. How I cursed my life that day! Just before midday, I'd somehow solved it, and nothing like that ever happened again -though I have to confess that part of the reason for that lies in getting a cable for three euros or so. ;-)
Thanks for the heads up on Muon, I can definitely use this!
Thank you, Chris.
Thankyou saved me looking for different options
Really nice video sir. You are helping a lot of new penguins to get into .
One request Sir can you please make a video on how to easily make Linux apps like a basic web-app for a particular site .
you are a very good at helping us nube Linux users thank very much for your help and info
Thank you! Yes, it helped now.
Well done Thank you
Enjoying your videos. I'm thinking about transferring over from Windows 7 to Linx.
I see you are typing in commands in order to run programs.
How do you know what commands you need to type in order to make a program run beforehand?
Seems about like CMD in Windows, where you have to write commands to run something.
I've been using Ubuntu for some five (?) years now, and each day I use the GUI less when anything "real" needs to be done. I mean, it's so much less fuss to just press [Alt] + [T], then type "sudo apt update", then "sudo apt upgrade". Coming from Windows originally, that sounded crazy -but it took no time at all to get used to it. And, dear Windows users: Everything updates at once, no pop-ups telling you that X needs an update distracting you. The peace of mind I've found since shifting is ... well, just peace of mind.
Exactly when I use Linux for the first time I was afraid if I will mess up my computer by typing those commands. But then I just braved my self to use terminal and now I used to it.
hi, like your way to teach us !! thanks and keep going to help world outside Linux :)
thanks that helped
Love your videos Chris, it's explained in very simple terms. I am really wanting to drop Windows and go Linux, more than likely Mint because of the sheer freedom, like customisation options etc, but im concerned about application and game compatibility and I know yourself has had trouble with it and im not sure how to sort out wine bottles and such lol. Also do you use any Linux disto as your daily driver or do you stick with windows and just use Linux in a VM?
Adobe and MSOffice (non-browser version) have no version for Linux, although they work well with Wine (Adobe Photoshop CS6 and MSOffice 2010), I recommend testing native programs that also have their versions for Windows, I recommend testing Inkscape, Gimp , WpsOffice, LibreOffice, KdenLive, Krita, Blender and DaVinciResolve on Windows itself before switching to Linux. You can see the games available (these are already on average 12,500 games available without counting the emulators that are most in the stores) two sites a few games work very well as OverWatch (DXVK), Dota 2 (Native), Rocket League (Native), CSGO (Native), WarFrame (Steam Proton)
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Thanks spikey, I use Linux as my daily driver at work and home now. I'd recommend Pop OS! OR Linux Mint. For this series, I am using POP OS. I use a vanilla Debian distribution for myself, but it is not beginner friendly.
I have software manager. I downloaded labview and opened it with software manager. its as if I just opened software manager itself. It simply doesnt recognize what i wnated it to open. What do I do?
Hey ya Chris..,first again (I just can’t help myself). ;-)
Hey can u help making a video on installing kali linux on acer laptop i mean there is a graphics card driver problem
That's why the after installing i get the screen blackout
At some point could you go into "bonding connections" a little. I have both wired (2 nics) and wireless connections. What would my options be?
I have been using Pop OS for about 3 weeks now. I like it. They have their own "store" to install stuff, however it also manages OS updates and such. If I were to install Muon, would this take the task over for OS updates as well as applications and drivers, or would the PoP OS store still need to stay and be used for the OS update management? Do you know?
App image is like a portable program in Windows or do u have to do that every time you launch the program?
Do I need to use the terminal everytime to open the appimage or just double clicking will open up the application ?
What happens when you run out of space on your root partition? In Windows you can add a new HDD, create a new "Program Files" folder on it and install your new applications. Is there an equivalent process in Linux?
Where where you when I first tried Linux? These videos are extremely helpful :-) Thank you :-) Just one question. How does one get portable archives to work? One of the programs I want to use only comes as a portable archive.
Waiting for part 3 of the PCIe-passthrough guide.
On the topic or the newbie-guide. It is not interesting for many of us but it is good that you do it. I approve of KDE Plasma, in my opinion it is the best DE for newcomers who are used to Windows.
They can just stay on Windows because Windows is going to be Linux soon enough anyways. Microsoft Linux! Microsoft Arch Linux in fact.
@Paul Frederick Ha, I doubt that will happen. Would be cool though.
I need to do the Looking Glass tutorial for those doing the PCI pass through. I just don't know when I'll have time to make that video. Probably sometime in mid-June to July at the latest.
@@ChrisTitusTech signs and portents www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/arch-linux-for-wsl-is-now-available-in-the-microsoft-store/
@@1pcfred
Linux, now with all the Windows bloat. It is a feature! :)
@@ChrisTitusTech
You have scheduled that many topics for the next weeks?
I absolutely love the Linux OS, but there is a small hiccup when I first started installing software from the Linux command line. Funnily enough, when I started out, I deleted the package manager itself when trying to wrestle with dependencies. After that experience, I reinstalled Linux and learned not to mess with the dependencies.
Thanks for the video. What about Pop OS itself? When a new version (not just an update) is out, how does one upgrade to the new version? Also, what is the difference btwn 'apt-get install' and 'apt install'? Cheers.
@BlackWorm Thanks!. I definitely would need an in-place upgrade since I probably would have already installed all kinds of apps and utilities and therefore very much invested in an established environment. I like to maintain the same experience I have with my OSX. The USB route would not work well, but I am glad there is a 'full-upgrade' option available. Cheers.
I am a big fan of SNAP packages.
I would love to switch to Linux but I need a software called Dragon speaking naturally, is there a similar software in Linux ecosystem ??
Thanks to you, I have purchased a USB stick from eBay containing Debian Linux. I will be setting it up when it gets here on Saturday! Your videos are the material that I have been looking for. I chose Debian, mainly, because that's the one your using. I know if I run into any problems that I could watch a video on how you did it for a 1:1 comparison. Started my 30-year challenge switching to Linux a while ago, now for my Gaming pc!
@BlackWorm I wasn't sure how to get Debian on a USB because of the many isos making it up. Hopefully it won't be too hazardous for me! Plus my internet connection is a bit iffy. I can watch RUclips and game, but it would take forever to download... Thanks for your reassurance too.
Good luck omah! Debian isn't beginner friendly at all. So you will have a lot of growing pains. However, once it is all setup it is nice, but you will be manually adding a TON of things like repos, drives, programs, etc. If you have too many issues, I'd recommend Linux Mint or Pop OS! instead. They are great for beginners and setup a lot of things for you.
@@ChrisTitusTech I actually have a laptop with popos installed.(amd version) Maybe I should just make a bootable USB key. Plus my gaming PC is all amd, so that should be fine!
How to get muon package manager on my Ubuntu?
thanks
To remove orphaned packages:
sudo apt autoremove
&& sudo apt autoclean
Mario Zenarju yep! 👍 also very useful
You can also use this command
sudo rm -r /
Rick Bhattacharya No.
@@mitchelvalentino1569 🤣😂 why man it's a really wonderful command 😂🤣
great vid. chris. waitin for the gaming video..
That will be tomorrow's vid ;)
Chris what linux distro would make a great multimedia PC for easy home use
Can we install any linux software on any linux distribution?
Just out of curiosity, why you have those 10+ languages installed for Firefox?
Sort of unrelated, but What do you use for VMs in Linux?
This is a very helpful series, as I am presently going to install some distribution of Linux onto my Dad's old Celeron laptop (Windows Vista is on it currently, and it runs about as fast as a dead cart horse).
I am currently using the Live USB feature to test out different distros. I tried out Kubuntu on my own machine just to get a feel for it (I haven't used Linux since my Raspberry Pi Model B, which was my first computer), and I kinda liked it, but I probably should have looked at more tutorial videos first.
I then tried Lubuntu on his machine; 0/10, cannot recommend. Looks like an 18 day-old cowpat, and has about the same level of features. The WiFi doesn't even scan for networks!
I will test out Linux Mint MATE tomorrow, but I might give Kubuntu a run on his machine too, since I have seen this sort of setup tutorial (even though nominally this is a tutorial only for installing apps).
Thank you Chris, and may God bless you!
Hi Chris, can we install Lumion & Autodesk Programs on Linux?
Chris. I'm Mint 17.1. Am reinstalling fresh to an SSD +HDD. Your best partitioning, with 250GB SSD/600GB 10k HDD ?
sometimes i wonder if we can pitch appimage to adobe and the like as "the format they can use to port to linux" as it supposely it enables the same software "to run on every distro"
@gilkesisking actually appimages _can_ be updated 👀 and snaps are tecnically controlled by canonical
@gilkesisking its works via delta updates just like snaps afaik and yes it'd give them full control over their own software. to me that's one reason why apprmages are the obvious choice for proprietary software. why do you think snaps are an obvious choice?
@gilkesisking catch 22? so snaps are the obvious due to canonical support but flatpaks are not despite having -ibm- red hat support?
@gilkesisking if they want full control appimage is the way to go :p if successfull they just might not need ms and apple xD but yeah i'm don't adobe on linux anytime soon either......that's part of the reasons i think we should pitch a linux package to them, just like we pitched linux itself
How to install software to hdd instead of my boot ssd
Crunch bang Linux any good?
can we install programs from setup files? like we do in windows. i'm very concern with my internet bandwidth so i used to keep .exe files in a DVD and whenever i wanted to install something i don't have to connect to the internet and download stuff
so. would you recommend a person like me to use linux?
can we install & run any .exe files in linux?
thank you so much for the reply. and yeah the app-images sounds good to me. i will surely give it a try
to be more fast
in 10:20 click the folder icon next to download
in 10:42 right click on free space to open terminal with folder path
Great tips, Thanks for sharing!
If I install a package that requires a lot of dependencies, and then decide to uninstall the package, what happens to all of the dependencies that were also installed? Do they remain installed? If so, how does one find and uninstall all of the "orphaned" dependencies?
@gilkesisking Great! Thank you!
how install nvidia graphics card to kubuntu there is some link you can check on
okay you can't make a video like this i think many people who would like to have such a vido but thanks for the help i check on all your vidos that you have done
How to remove Windows 10 OS completely & install My Favorite Distro? I have been troubleshooting with that Windows 10 Home Edition. Please Could you help me with a few steps How To? Thanks
I now have my daily driver configured and all my essential programs installed! I'm 64 years old! If I can do this simply following Chis, YOU CAN DO THIS! I have been set free from 30 years of Microsoft slavery!
Pretty sure you can double click the appimage after marking it as executable
As a newbie it would be so helpful if I could add the appimage file shortcut in the application menu
@gilkesisking yeah I know I can do something like that. I've been busy due to exams so I decided I will learn Linux after exams. I already know a quite some of stuff about Linux though but it's too basic
Hey Chris, thanks for all the effort you are putting in to make these videos. I am a linux newbie but have recently installed Kubuntu on my work laptop and are running my Work Windows 10 on virtualbox. I would like to know something, Near the end of the video you installed the app image file via terminal. you first browsed to the downloads folder then you very quickly pulled the file name in to the command line without copying and pasting manually. Is that a shortcut or something?
@gilkesisking Hi thanks for the info. Yeah I know you can just click on it but the autocompletion might be useful in other situations. Many thanks!
so, AppImage are like portable executables on Windows. I like the idea, but you cant close the terminal or otherwise the program also will shutdown.... I once tried to run Netbeans (Java Development IDE) from Terminal and as soon as i closed the Terminal window, the Netbeans window also closed.....
you can put the app started from terminal into "background" (Ctrl+Z in terminal to suspend it, then use command "bg" to make it run again, but in background), then you can close the terminal and it will continue to run. (actually it would be maybe a bit more proper to start it straight in terminal-detached mode, but I can't recall how to do that .. you can also start it straight in "background" mode by adding ampersand at end, i.e: "./someExecutable &"
How about a video on finding and fixing broken packages.
show on ubuntu wit terminal
You should take the time to explain repositories and modifying the source files
How do you manage on which drives your programs getting installed with the package manager? I've got some setups with SSD + HDD drives but those SSD's shouldn't be big enough for all programs + games + other files.
I'm in the same boat Simi3x, in windows I can easily tell a program which drive to install a program but I'm not sure how to do it with windows.
Simi3x, I wouldn’t recommend installing applications to other drives. It’s not easy since in Linux you’re generally installing to directories. There are workarounds, but I think you’re safer keeping your applications where they are designed to reside. You can certainly use the hard disk for files, photos, movies, etc., but I would keep the apps in the standard directories, which will be on the ssd.
@@stephenjones8645 Can I at least move gamefiles from Steam or Lutris to the HDD?
Simi3x, sorry I’m not a gamer. This might help: askubuntu.com/questions/504088/change-installation-path-move-programs
Interesting question and I actually don't know how to do that with packages (at install time), but I have most of my games on the second disk, so I had to think for a second how I did that.
It's because I buy most of my games at GOG, which provides binary installers which ask for target directory (and I have in my $HOME folder multiple symbolic links to various base folders located on the HDD, like $HOME/play -> /mount/hdd2/gog/play, or $HOME/Downloads -> /mount/hdd2/Downloads (to download everything to HDD instead of my main SSD disk).
Also I have lot of SW built from sources, as I'm developer and I often tinker with the SW itself, modifying it a bit or bugfixing, then with most of the projects I can easily specify target directory as variable for "make install PREFIX=some_other_dir".
The app images as presented in video can be run from where you put them, snaps do some partial installation somewhere, can't recall it from head, but you can divert it in similar way as I will describe below. Also wine bottles can be easily redirected to particular disk by simply linking whole $HOME/.wine there or whatever you want to use.
But if you get just "deb" package, the paths are hardcoded inside IIRC, so this is quite difficult. You can easily divert *all* common packages by simply moving common directories like /usr/bin, /usr/share/, ... to the other disk directly when configuring mounting points, but that would mean all the binaries (even basic OS things) are at the other disk, which makes SSD for host OS a bit pointless, so I wouldn't recommend this. Also do NOT move these root base directories by creating symbolic link files, as you may easily end in situation when you can't access basic commands (for example if the second disk fails to mount).
You can probably move particular binary/subfolder of particular package, which is already installed, by moving it and creating symlinks, which may work for the non-system SW, like games/etc.. but this is cumbersome and I'm not sure how it would work with updates.
Generally if you have at least 80-100GB of SSD, you shouldn't have too much problem with disk space, as long as we are talking about OS itself, and common applications you use daily (I have 256GB SSD disk split into two 90GB partition for main file system and 120GB partition for /home, and the OS part is at this moment 20GB used, the /home is at 70GB (Android SDK and various other development tools taking most it)... the HDD where I have 95% of GOG games/internet downloads is at ~300GB of usage, but I'm lately trying to focus mostly on programming, so my disk usage is probably low when compared to some avid gamer. = as you can see, if you are lucky like me, that you can install the larger things naturally on the HDD, 100+GB SSD for the OS itself and /home is enough, as long as you "move" those more fat data which are not essential for OS elsewhere, either by mounting certain directories to new partition, or by using symbolic link files.
The space may be of some concern if you will prefer snaps/flatpak/appImage packages instead of properly packaged SW, or if you will install modern games and you can't control easily where those will land.
This issue can be probably resolved also by using some more advanced mounting/file-system scheme, probably using something like LVM to map all disks into single large hybrid disk space, but I don't use these, so I'm not sure how easy it is to configure it like that, and how one can adjust performance by giving OS hints which packages and files should be rather kept in SSD area. What I'm describing above with symlinks as working solution for me is sort of lazy-man solution, and professional sysadmins would probably just roll their eyes and go with the LVM + mounting the disks directly into desired way.
Of course you should first have some basic understanding how linux filesystem works (why I'm talking about linking directories and not "drives", there are no drives in linux and you can just map your disk/partitions at certain mounting points (particular directory accessible from root directory) and you can then add any amount of soft links from one place to completely other one, linux file systems are very flexible in this aspect). Plus be aware where the OS essential files are located (/usr/sbin, /usr/share, /usr/bin, /etc/, some areas of /var/ ) and avoid any tampering with these unless you know what you are doing and understand the booting process (including order of HW init, how the extra disks are mounted, and when the kernel can read data from other devices than /boot disk). Otherwise you may easily end with system which doesn't boot, because it can't load critical files from expected location.
I am planning to switch to Linux, that why I'm watching this, so I don't know much about Linux but can anyone explain why the pop shop is not recommended, because it does looks very user friendly.
There is a 5th way to install programs... Build from source 😊
I didn't want to explode the minds of the new folks coming from Windows ;) Building from source is sooo powerful and why so many people love arch and the AUR. Because the AUR is basically just build scripts.
@@ChrisTitusTech i remember spending an hour trying to build something then i realised the AUR is a thing :V
I'm now on Manjaro. I love AUR's.
@@Jimmy_Jones Same, I have no idea why anyone would use anything other than an arch based distro! AUR makes life so easy!
@@GTBeean Probably lack of a friendly user base. Other distros will assume you know nothing. Arch has taken me a while to learn. I mainly use the store and not the terminal. Not proud of that. Suppose it still gets the job done. Got VirtualBox to work but I'm still trying to work out VMWare. I'm obviously doing something wrong.
Hi, Chris, I downloaded Geforce 2 MX/MX 400 Nvidia graphics driver, yes I know it`s old, but for life of me I can`t install my graphics driver, P4 2 Gig ram 60 gig hard drive EMachine 190 running on 32-bit desktop Fedora 30 KDE. I have searched for every which way to install this pkg1.run file. any clues on how to install this driver, also it doesn`t have install by package manager in the menu when you right click on it tried through terminal. P.s before smashing my brains in with computer lol!
What about compiling apps from source? And also please make a video on snap packages
You should try Divinci Reslove
Rolling on installing
Basing on your on screen video edges, I can tell you know Battlestar Galactica right?
Frak yeah!
What happened to compiling binaries from source code?
gcc & ld: Chris are we jokes to you?
Haha, I will be showing this in future videos, but I didn't want to overload a new user that are typically afraid of terminal. I'm going to make a dedicated video going over this.
@@ChrisTitusTech it is a complicated topic. Do a video on cmake-gui.
@Paolo G don't bet on it.
I think I last used a package manager in 2013. Never got on with them. Typing a handful of words in the terminal is far simpler
I wanted to show all the options so someone can use what they are comfortable with, but yes, you are correct, we always end up in terminal just because it is so darn fast!
Package managers are for when you don't know what program you need, what its name might be, but do know it's something for (fill in purpose), while wanting some sort of guidance in terms of user comments. Otherwise, I so agree with you.
@@ChrisTitusTech is there a book on terminal commands that will teach me? I need something simple and straight forward. I was able to get by in windows and DOS because there were books for us dummies.
how do I get this muron on Linux Mint?
Open terminal and type:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install muon
You failed to explain or even touch upon the reason behind snap packages. That being, snap works like a "virtual sandbox" to isolate KDE applications such as Krita, in order to insulate your system from the enormous amount of potentially disruptive KDE dependencies and updates they drag in. The single most self destructive, counter productive thing a Gnome/GTK based system user can do is to directly install any KDE software, especially if it's being done directly from a KDE repository. It's not nearly as bad as it was a few years back, but KDE and Gnome have yet to fully iron out their differences. At one point in time, the behavior of some of the KDE developers toward compatibility with Gnome bordered upon what appeared to be the intentional creation of malware.
How to compile from github
So how do I know the package is called when installing it via terminal ? "sudo apt install %package%"
Nudel holz, depends on the package manager. Since you reference apt... askubuntu.com/questions/160897/how-do-i-search-for-available-packages-from-the-command-line . If I don’t know what I’m looking for, I like to use the graphical installers for exploration since they are categorized by app type.
@@stephenjones8645 so why should I use my terminal to install a package when I use a gui for searching anyway? This doesn't make sense to me :D is just because it's cooler?
Nudel holz, LOL!. I use the terminal if I know what I want to install because it’s generally quicker, but if I’m browsing I’ll use the gui. The one exception is if I’m wanting a particular package type because sometimes it can be difficult to tell what I’m installing from the app stores. For example, if I’m wanting the .deb version vs the snap version or vice versa sometimes I find it easier just to install in the terminal to make sure that I’m getting the version I want.
Chris, could you increase you microphone volume? it's a little bit lower compared with other videos.
Just noticed this. My compressor was off and it decreased it and sounds a bit muffled. I will fix this in 2 videos, I already recorded tomorrow's video ;)
What, no ./configure?
Imho, one of the big issue people run into on linux when using package managers is that if you search for the name of an app, you often find yourself with a shitload of results all having the searched text in their names and none exactly corresponding to what you are looking for, plus the descriptions are often confusing and not helping at all or, even worse, you find yourself with multiple versions of the same exact thing. In these cases the luxury of choice is more often perceived as hell which is why i don't completely agree with you on the "store" point of view, if only there was one that really came with the guaranty that if you install an app from it, you are actually not running into any issues whatsoever. Until today, my preferred way unfortunately still is the command line but i really wish for some simplistic store like gui that is just working.
@5:50
"sudo apt install steam-installer"
From where can a new Linux user (like me) find the name of the last argument (steam-installer)?
I understand the purpose of "sudo" and "apt" and "install" and even "steam-installer" (it is the name of the package). But how did you know that that is the name of the package?
Where do you look that up?
Thank you.
You need to querry or search in the repositories. In Debian based distros you type "apt search package_name/program_name" and the terminal will return list of all the packages from repositories whose name contains the string package_name (from the command). Every package listed has a title that describes the package functionality/content.
@@24MrDave Excellent! Thank you.
I prefer flatpaks to app images because flatpaks have automatic update in the terminal. I just don't like going to the site and downloading a new appimage every time they release a new verson.
make && make install :-(
emerge package :-)
PS: Awesome video as always.
Note that Muon works best on KDE or on any other Qt based window managers.
that's interesting
@@fuseteam It's just cause Muon uses Qt, too.
@@theodoros_1234 i wonder how it would look on ubuntu touch hmmm
@@fuseteam Yeah, that would be interesting to see.
Wait a minute, Chris. About the Appimage. Must you type a command in every time you want to open it? Can you show us how to create a direct link or App Icon to open it up? Don't leave me hangin, man. ;-)
Going to be using github.com/TheAssassin/AppImageLauncher in a future video showing this. I just wanted to test this out and make a dedicated video going over AppImage. There is some really cool stuff that you can do with AppImages.
First you can double click it to open it. You don't have to use the terminal.
Second you can create .desktop file so it shows in your app launcher menu of your DE. Just create a .desktop file like 'KdenLive.dekstop' in '.local/share/applications/' in your home dir with the following content:
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Name=KdenLive
Exec=/home/username/Downloads/kdenlive-19.04.1-x86_64.appimage
Change of course the Exec path (it must be full path to the appimage file) and the Name. This is close to the minimal configuration for a .desktop file. Then relog or reboot and it should show in the app menu of your DE. You may need to add 'Category=Multimedia' or whatever category you want for it to show in the app menu if it's categorized.
Why are you opening Appimages in terminal? Just double-click and it opens.
Yeah it was very strange making it executable through the GUI instead of 'chmod u+x {filename}' and then going into terminal to execute it.
When installing eg Discord on Linux it asks you if you want to install it as "deb" or as "tar.gz", so where is the diffrece and wich one should I pick if I`m running Pop OS?
(edit: corrected a spelling mistake)
Shouldn't matter, both formats do the same thing if you install them correctly. But deb is way simpler than tar.gz
No recommendade .tar.gz, .deb is like an .exe (click and install), whereas .tar.gz is usually a compilable or portable app
Thanks you all! I'm new to this so it's good to have people who answer those noobe questions :)
@@Clemens-H It's really nice to be able to help.
I prefer to use Discover to get applications. However, as you stated, you can run into issues. Sometimes it'll tell you what is wrong. Sometimes it doesn't. When it tells me what is wrong, I can generally fix it. When it doesn't, I'll find the package name and use the terminal. That'll tell me what is wrong 99% of the time.
That's just me.
Gnome Software on Fedora isn’t actually all that bad. It ain’t perfect and it can’t install everything but it can maintain everything. Software/packages that aren’t available through the store will still show up in updates as “OS Updates”
I totally agree that the Software Store programs are rubbish. I've used Linux for many years and I always use either Synaptic or the terminal. If I use the terminal I usually also install the recommended and suggested packages that it suggests when I install anything.
I wish Linux installed apps the same way as Macos... just drag and drop an icon to the app folder... its just soo easy.
The convoluted program install is really holding me back, they've had decades to make this work normally, it seems perverse to keep it so complicated, frustrating, and circuitous.
Synaptic for installing new apps and apt-get for updates.
LibreOffice is not launching in parrot os 4.6
How did you install it?
I recommend going to the store and download another alternative version in Snap or FlatPack
@@kevinyoliveira68I installed parrot using a bootable USB drive.
Hey you forgot to tell about sudo dpkg -i
i wish i could have seen this 15 years ago
You forget the 5th, building from source ;)