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But that's not true, what if I want to install third party applications not listed in (for sake of example) Ubuntu's app store? Sure, Firefox and popular commu
by dylangs1030 13y ago
But that's not true, what if I want to install third party applications not listed in (for sake of example) Ubuntu's app store?
Sure, Firefox and popular community apps will always be either pre-installed or easy to install with a GUI.
But what about fringe applications that not enough people use to merit a spot in the repository of available apps?
- jiggy2011 13y agoOften it's just a case of downloading and double clicking a .deb. Though I do agree that the UI for the software store as well as the process for adding third party repos could be made a lot smoother and the release codenames are confusing,
- Dylan16807 13y agohttp://askubuntu.com/questions/4983/what-are-ppas-and-how-do-i-use-them http://askubuntu.com/questions/4983/what-are-ppas-and-how-do... All the third party software I've seen for ubuntu has had a PPA, and those are simple to install via GUI. If an application is so fringe that it's source-only you might need the command line, but that's nothing compared to the pain of compiling programs with dependencies on windows.