New to Ubuntu
Greg Edwards
buulian at gmail.com
Sun Aug 14 16:06:04 UTC 2005
On 8/14/05, Audrius <foreverything at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've installed Ubuntu and I really like it. Unfortunetely I'm new to
> Linux so several question have arised.
>
> 1. How do I install any application when I'm logged in as a user (not
> root user, though I managed to create this account also)? For example
> I need to install JRE so my browser (in this case Firefox) displays me
> Applets. What steps should I perform to acomplish this? In fact I
> installed this on my /usr/java directory when I was logged in as root.
> Maybe there's some civilized way, like switching the users for
> installation tasks or smth.
TO SET UP ROOT USER, DO THIS:
sudo passwd root
ENTER PASSWORD FOR YOUR USER, THEN ENTER THE 'NEW UNIX PASSWORD'
TO INSTALL JAVA:
sudo apt-get install sun-j2re1.5
java -version
>
> 2. Suppose I installed JRE in /usr/java. Now I need to set-up my PATH
> environment variable in order applications that uses java cnows where
> to find it. How do I set up environment variables under Ubuntu?
YOU WON'T NEED TO IF YOU DO THE ABOVE.
>
> 3. How do I uninstall applications from Ubuntu? For example I want to
> uninstall Gimp. What steps should I take?
>
TERMINAL:
sudo synaptic
ENTER ROOT PASSWORD
[SYNAPTIC OPENS]
GO TO "SEARCH"
ENTER IN GIMP
HIT ENTER
FIND WHERE THE GIMP IS- CLICK THE COLORED BOX TO THE LEFT OF IT
SELECT "MARK FOR UNINSTALLATION"
CLICK "APPLY"
IT'LL DO IT FOR YOU.
> 4. What mp3 player could you guys recomend me. It would be great that
> it's interface would be similiar to winamp. And it's also preferable
> that the installation would be as friendly as possible :)
>
XMMS- DO IT IN SYNAPTIC LIKE ABOVE :)
> 5. How to place my application's icon in the Applications "menu" (I
> don't really know how it is called)?
>
sudo apt-get install smeg
LOOK UNDER "MENU">"SYSTEM TOOLS" (OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT ;)
---CAN'T REMEMBER, I USE KDE...
FOR FUTURE QUESTIONS LIKE THESE, I'VE FOUND THAT
http://www.ubuntuguide.org WAS EXTREMELY HELPFULL.
> Thanks in advance...
> Audrius
>
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