linux newbie

albi at scii.nl albi at scii.nl
Thu Aug 25 17:34:37 UTC 2005


On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 19:17:20 +0200
Praveen Kumar <kattapraveen.kr at gmail.com> wrote:

> am sorry to ask such a stupid question.. but i have downloaded a lot
> of programs.... those that have *.deb extentions.... now how do i
> install them? when i double click on them... it opens using the
> archive manager ... thereafter what should i do?

1) open a terminal
2) sudo dpkg -i your_new.deb

however.. it makes much more sense to add repositories rather than
downloading+installing separate debs.

see here :
http://www.ubuntuguide.org/#extrarepositories

after that you can use e.g. apt-cache search p2p to search for
p2p-software in the packages-collection





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