Hey everyone, this is Will from beyourownit.com. In the last video, I showed you how to install Ubuntu from the live CD, and this time, I’m going to show you how to install some software and actually start using it.

And if you notice that, once it starts going, it’s actually going to use a lot more of the screen now than it did in the last video, and that’s because I’ve installed the guest drivers for VirtualBox, so we won’t have to worry about that so much anymore. Here we go.

Now, there’s a couple ways to actually install software on an Ubuntu system. And one of them is going to be what’s called, is a type of file called a .deb. And it stands for .deb, .Debian archive, basically. And that’s going to be about the same thing as an .exe file.

So, I can actually show you that I downloaded the deb file for Chrome earlier, and we go in our Tools and look at the downloads in Firefox. You can see Google Chrome stable current i3d6.deb. And if you run it, it’s going to ask you for the root password, if you say, I already have installed, but I’ll reinstall anyway.

It’s going to ask you for your password. So, I’ll close Firefox back there. And everything that happens in Linux is something they can actually have under the Terminal. I mean, a lot of things in Windows are like this, too. Or they used to be. But basically, had you gone into the terminal and run that file, the same thing would happen here. And it’s closed, and Chrome has been installed.

The other options are going to be things like the Ubuntu Software Center, which is, yeah, here’s a list of installed software. These are all the things that you have on your computer. If you go to get software, you can actually look for something like, or, you can go browse through the actual listings.

And let’s say you want more games. And actually, here’s a list of all sorts of games. Let’s say you’re into card games. And here’s a list of the card games that are available for download right now. You know, if we’re not looking at games, you can look at developer tools. Let’s say you want to do Python development, ton of developer tools available for Python.

In this case, we’re going to go to Sound and Video, and we’re going to download Audacity. It’s going to ask you for your password. And for many people, this is going to actually be the easiest option, just because it’s pretty painless. And it’ll download Audacity. And when it’s done, it’ll install it.

The other way to do this is actually going to be the terminal. And one of the, I guess you could say, the crowning achievements for Debian is actually the apt-get system. Apt-get is a, [alert sound] sorry about that. Let’s cancel this for now.

Apt-get is the search and install procedure from the Debian system. Now, Ubuntu’s Debian based operating system, but it’s not actually a Debian system. But they’ve made some changes, so it’s not like, you know, you can get things from the official Debian packages, but they don’t go both ways. But if you’ve got an apt-get Audacity, sorry about that.

SUDO which stands for Super User Do Operation, I think. But I always thought it went like that way, so. Because it’s all about root and who’s got administrators, so SUDO apt-gets installed Audacity. And if Audacity is in one of the packages, it will be installed.

And then you say, it says, you know, looking at the packages, finding out what you need else to have installed, because, you know, they’re all packages. These, all these packages will be installed, these should be installed too, and new packages will be installed. Need to get, you know, 40, need to get 15 MBs, it’s going to take up 40 MBs of disc space. Hit yes, and go.

And it’s going to connect and it’s going to start downloading. And once it’s actually done downloading, it’s just physically going to install. And I’m not going to wait for it, because the Internet here seems to be kind of poky this afternoon.

But these are the multiple ways to actually install programs, in Ubuntu. And there’s something else that I want to touch on, then we’re going to talk about it in the future, too. And it’s just now, it has to do with the consoling drivers. And Ubuntu’s gotten all, and Linux in general has gotten very good at getting drivers right off the bat. But if you have an NVIDIA card or an ATI card, they might have only installed the basic driver. In order to use advanced options, you’re going to actually need to install the drivers.

And hundred men, hardware drivers. Ubuntu has a utility that helps you install drivers. For me, it’s just going to say that the VirtualBox ones are installed, that’s all that’s installed. But I mean, if you have NVIDIA drivers installed, maybe you need drivers for a wireless card, this is going to help you install the ones that it actually has, as an option for you to use from the actual developers.

You know, some things in Linux you actually have to go and compile your own drivers, and it’s kind of a nightmare. But a lot of times, things like that, you can actually get things working that normally, you just wouldn’t be able to if you weren’t willing to kind of go out on a limb and try.

But, this was mainly to show you how to start getting your system set up the way you want it. And by the way, if the new, oh, Chrome has its own thing. But if the new layout of the buttons up here, because they’re over on here on the left side instead of the right side, is bothering you, you can actually go to System, and Preferences and Appearances. And as you see here, there are different appearances and some of them have, still have the buttons in the old style.

Sorry about that, so I, I contrast printed verse theme. You can actually get these windows done in this way.

So, those are the ways to install software in Ubuntu. And the same systems can be used to remove it’s apt-get install remover, Apt-get Remove, I think, to actually to uninstall the programs, with the command line.

But, that’s it for this edition; I guess you could say, of the Linux tutorial that we’re working on.

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