[Ilugc] help regarding software downloading
- From: anandrkris@xxxxxxxxx (Anand.R.Kris)
- Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 18:05:47 +0530
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Purushothaman M <lobestar at gmail.com> wrote:
I have migrated from windows to linux mint recently.
In windows if a new software is required software can be downloaded
from the website
and stored in afolder and can be installed on requirement.
Whether the same way softwares for linux can be downloaded. All sites
are asking which linux you are using
Any portable application is there as in the case of windows?
By googling i am not able to get .
Any help is highly appreciated.
-m.purushothaman
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Hi Purushothaman - Incidentally, I use Linux Mint as well and a recent
convert from Windows. Installing applications / software is much
easier in Linux, provided the application is available :-)
My answers are from a layman perspective and maybe incorrect from
tech. standpoint. I am not a programmer and hence no itching to
understand what happens under the hood. ;-)
Like Google Play store, the distro (Mint in your case) has a
repository of all essential software packaged for users. You can use
software manager to search for software and install. Mint (derived
from Ubuntu) has a pretty good collection of most software.
http://community.linuxmint.com/software/browse
Note, these may not be latest since application versions tested to be
stable are usually offered.
If the application is not available in Software Manager , then
1) Search for *deb file (similar to .exe file in Windows) in the
application's website. There maybe multiple versions available, e.g.
32-bit or 64-bit version. You can just click and install if it is one
file.
Else in case of multiple files, you can got to terminal and navigate
(cd) to folder, type sudo dpkg -i *deb installs all deb files in the
folder.
By default, applications installed through software manager gets
downloaded to /var/apt/cache and for future can be installed later by
apt-get install command. If you ahve another machine with similar
setupo just copy stuff from here to avoid multiple downloads.
2) Search for PPA of application. Some noble souls package
applications for users w/o us worrying about dependencies or whatever.
You can use Software sources in Mint to add PPA's or if you want to
feel like nerd there is some apt-get command which I do not want to
remember. ;-)
3) If it is not / no equivalent available at all, then for some
applications, you can run using WINE.
Hope this helps.
--
Cheers,
Anand Radhakrishnan
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