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Installing Software On Ubuntu


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·Nov 3, 2024

Hey guys, this is Mids1, and today is going to be a video on how to install packages on your Ubuntu machine. I'm going to be showing you three ways how to do this. Two of them involve a GUI, and one of them is all command line.

Um, so first of all, what you want to do is you want to go into, um, this is the first method: Applications on the top menu bar, then Add/Remove. Um, and when that opens up a window that, um, will look similar to this, wait till it loads.

Um, um, you just under Show want to select All Available Applications. And so now in this box, you see all of the applications you could ever get, um, from your repositories. Um, more applications can be added here remotely, um, through your repositories.

Um, and right now I don't have very many, um, repositories programmed in, so only the applications that are defaultly available for download in the default repositories will be available to me. But, um, through this application manager, it's pretty obvious how to install stuff.

Like, say I want to install 3D Chess; you just check it off and then click Apply Changes. And now this will say, um, do you want to add this program? And I'll just click Add. And now it's going to ask me for my password because I'm administering the computer.

So now I'm installing 3D Chess. Um, so this could take a few seconds; wait one second. So now it's basically done. So I'm, I'm, I'm finished installing this package, and now it should be installed on my system. So now I'm going to click Close.

And so now if I look under Games, it's there. So, um, let me just show you, um, another way through the GUI to install applications. Um, you go into System Administration and Synaptic Package Manager, and um, this will load pretty fast, and you can just check off the packages you want to install and click Apply.

And you can edit your repositories through here, etc. But that's basically just another GUI way. Um, then there's another way to install packages that's, um, a little more accurate because it, it's on the console and you need to know the exact package name of what you're installing.

So if you want to go into a terminal window by going into Applications, Accessories, Terminal, that's fine. But if you prefer to press Control + Alt + F1 to be in a real terminal, um, that's okay as well.

Um, so now all you have to do to install stuff is sudo apt-get install, and then space, then the package name. And since my package name—I'm not really sure what I'm going to install—I'm just going to take a wild guess at a package name, maybe Kedit.

And now it's going to ask you for your password. And so now it says cannot find package. That's because it's case-sensitive. So, um, let's just say gtk-record my desktop; I think that's a package. So now it'll install, um, and it's, and, um, after it's done installing, um, we'll be able to move on.

You do need to make sure that you don't install anything bad. So I'll just press Control + Alt + F7 to get back to my GUI. So now, um, it's under Sound and Video. Some things won't appear here; like if I installed something like aircrack-ng, it wouldn't appear in the applications list.

I don't actually think aircrack-ng is on any of my repositories, but I'll just prove it to you. Okay, it is, so it's going to install aircrack-ng. And when it's done installing, your Kraken, nothing will have changed in those menus.

Um, so this is how to install stuff. Obviously, through the GUI, you can uncheck packages and click Apply, um, for things you want to uninstall. But through this, it's, it's a little different; it's apt-get remove, space, and then the package name.

So, say I want to uninstall, um, aircrack; type sudo apt-get remove aircrack-ng. Now, I like aircrack-ng because I like, you know, cracking Wi-Fi networks. I'm not going to uninstall that.

But, um, so that's basically how to install packages on Ubuntu through the terminal or through the GUI using GDM. Um, so thank you for watching. Make sure to subscribe, and goodbye.

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