The average user wants to install software.

[Guest Heywood Jablowme]

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/installingsoftware

 

 

 

What a fucking nightmare.

 

 

 

Last resorts: .rpm and .tar.gz

 

 

 

..rpm

 

If you can't find a .deb, you can try a .rpm. These files are packaged for

 

other Linux distributions (usually Fedora or Mandriva), but there is an

 

application called alien (which you can install using Synaptic) that allows

 

you (most of the time) to convert .rpm files to .deb. Read more about this

 

process.

 

 

 

..tar.gz

 

As a last resort, you can download a .tar.gz file. The .tar.gz file

 

extension indicates the file is a compressed set of files and folders (the

 

compressed files you see in Windows usually have a .zip extension). If you

 

see the .tar.gz, it could be compressed files that have a precompiled binary

 

file, or it could be compressed files that have the source code allowing you

 

to compile the application from source.

 

 

 

If you have trouble installing a .tar.gz file, you can ask for help on the

 

Ubuntu Forums.

 

 

 

 

 

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Who wants to learn about this? Mr. & Mrs. Bestbuy? Don't think so. Oops.