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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