installing downloads

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Tell me more please..

Do you downloaded packages through update-manager, or package manager?

Or do you click on download button in your browser? :-)
If yes, its *.deb packages?

Type here from where and what are you downloaded...

ps> sorry 4 my English..

Hi!

There is a great how-to on installing software in Ubuntu. It is located at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/InstallingSoftware

Thanks!

hi many thanks 4 getting back 2 me I have tried 2 work out how 2 use the
synaptic package manager n ZI have also been told there is a new reliase of
amsn 4 ubuntu I went 2 the sight 4 that 1 but was unable 2 work out what bit
I was supposed 2 download I have no idea how 2 use the package manager as I
am used 2 using windows xp I had some1 tell me what 2 do with it but when I
go in I am unable 2 find what I want 2 install hope u cam make sence of this
  oh n your english is fine many thanks again sam

>From: Jaroslav Petráš <email address hidden>
>Reply-To: Jaroslav Petráš<email address hidden>
>To: <email address hidden>
>Subject: [Support #957]: Re: installing downloads
>Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 09:20:13 -0000
>
>Support request #957 on Ubuntu changed:
>https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+ticket/957
>
>Comment:
>Tell me more please..
>
>Do you downloaded packages through update-manager, or package manager?
>
>Or do you click on download button in your browser? :-)
>If yes, its *.deb packages?
>
>Type here from where and what are you downloaded...
>
>ps> sorry 4 my English..
>

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okay, installing software onto a linux box has several methods. the one method, which you most likely DONT need to use is compiling from source. this means that you would download the source code of the program that you want (usually contained in a .tar.gz or .tar.bzip). im not going to explain compiling and installing from source as it is usually unneccessary. the two main choices you have is to download the package off the net as a .deb file. make sure you remember in what folder you saved it in. all you do then is run "dpkg -i whatever.deb".

Your other option is Synaptic. When you start synaptic, try the "search" button to search for whatever package you are looking for. if it is not there, do not panic. this probably means that you need to enable extra repositories. goto this URL to find out how to enable repositories: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RestrictedFormats

once you have enabled the extra repositories, you should be able to find just about any package you can think of. hope this helps. unfortunetly, i gotta dash, so i cant go more indepth. maybe someone else can just add a tid bit more for this guy. hope i helped.