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how do you install programs
I have just read the stick on how to install, but it only refers to installing mint not aditinal programs after
Unlike windows The program I downloaded dose not have a set up icon. so can someone tell me the way its done with linux please?
PS yes I did unzip/ extract the folder first
Unlike windows The program I downloaded dose not have a set up icon. so can someone tell me the way its done with linux please?
PS yes I did unzip/ extract the folder first
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Re: how do you install programs
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Re: how do you install programs
Easiest way to install anything is to search in the Software Manager first & install from there if it's available.
If not - is there a .deb file in what you downloaded? If so double click that & it will install.
If not - is there a .deb file in what you downloaded? If so double click that & it will install.
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Re: how do you install programs
Pjotr wrote: ↑Tue Jun 30, 2020 11:31 amLike this:
https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.c ... tware.html
In that link it says
The application Software Manager
4. Using Software Manager is easy:
Establish internet connection.
Menu - Administration - Software Manager.
How do you find the menu
PS the file I have extracted is in the download folder
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Re: how do you install programs
Menu - click on the Linux Mint logo in the bottom left corner
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Re: how do you install programs
so I click that, then how do i get administrator?
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Re: how do you install programs
Click on "Menu" with your mouse, immediately start typing "Software Manager" on your keyboard, without the quotation " marks. Automatically the program "Software Manager" will appear. Select it.
Software Manager will open. In the upper right corner, enter the software program you are looking for in the search bar. A list of similarly named programs will appear. Select the correctly named software program and simply press on the "Install" button. That's all... You can simply remove earlier installed software in this program as well.
May I ask (out of curiosity) what program you were looking for?
Software Manager will open. In the upper right corner, enter the software program you are looking for in the search bar. A list of similarly named programs will appear. Select the correctly named software program and simply press on the "Install" button. That's all... You can simply remove earlier installed software in this program as well.
May I ask (out of curiosity) what program you were looking for?
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Re: how do you install programs
so is the Software Manager the program that you use to download the programs from?
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Re: how do you install programs
Yes, especially for newcomers like yourself I would advise you to only use the Software Manager at first. Learn your way around by getting to know the LinuxMint OS a bit. You seem to be completely new to Linux, so it's best to first get acquainted with the all the new LinuxMint vocabulary. It took me some time as well to get to know everything... Welcome to the forum gumsriddleing!
By the way: updates are installed via the Update Manager, but you will be automatically alerted about those in the panel / taskbar, when there are new updates available.
By the way: updates are installed via the Update Manager, but you will be automatically alerted about those in the panel / taskbar, when there are new updates available.
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Re: how do you install programs
Yes. To find, download and install software. And to uninstall it.gumsriddleing wrote: ↑Tue Jun 30, 2020 3:10 pmso is the Software Manager the program that you use to download the programs from?

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Re: how do you install programs
For the moment, and even once you have been using Mint for some time, you need to forget about your old Windows ways of searching for applications on the internet; that's not where you will get 99.9% of what applications you install - they will all come from the repositories of the Mint OS using Software Manager, or if you prefer, synaptic, Mint's package manager.
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Re: how do you install programs
a lot of sites now can track what operating system you are running to give you by algarythams the right program to downloadajgreeny wrote: ↑Tue Jun 30, 2020 3:51 pmFor the moment, and even once you have been using Mint for some time, you need to forget about your old Windows ways of searching for applications on the internet; that's not where you will get 99.9% of what applications you install - they will all come from the repositories of the Mint OS using Software Manager, or if you prefer, synaptic, Mint's package manager.
But having a directory sound much more organized. I guess driver hunting is a windows things where as linux have done it all for you
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Re: how do you install programs
just one thing i have noticed!
There is no Tor Onion browser in the softwear manager
There is no Tor Onion browser in the softwear manager
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