Installing software in user friendly way

[Henning Kilset Pedersen]

On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 08:21 -0300, Renato Pedroso Henriques wrote:
> "UBUNTU...we got a problem"
>  
> Hi folks.  I am a mac os X lover and windows hater. Anyway this is the
> issue before me.
>  
> I am used to download an installer of any kind, say the opera browser
> for instance.  Double click on it and that is it. The installer does
> it. In the linux world where things are new to me, all I get is a
> targzip package with everything inside. How do I install anything at
> all?
>  
> Please be patient with this newby.

Start a terminal. Give the root user a password if you havent (sudo
passwd root - type YOUR user password first, then the new root password
twice).

then type apt-get install whatever

(i.e. apt-get install mysql)

OR - you can run the Synaptic package manager - you will still have to
set your root password as stated above. It is in
System-Administration-Synaptic.

Regards,
Henning