On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Purushothaman M <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have migrated from windows to linux mint recently. > In windows if a new software is required software can be downloaded > from the website > and stored in afolder and can be installed on requirement. > > Whether the same way softwares for linux can be downloaded. All sites > are asking which linux you are using > > Any portable application is there as in the case of windows? > By googling i am not able to get . > Any help is highly appreciated. > > -m.purushothaman > _______________________________________________ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: > http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
Hi Purushothaman - Incidentally, I use Linux Mint as well and a recent convert from Windows. Installing applications / software is much easier in Linux, provided the application is available :-) My answers are from a layman perspective and maybe incorrect from tech. standpoint. I am not a programmer and hence no itching to understand what happens under the hood. ;-) Like Google Play store, the distro (Mint in your case) has a repository of all essential software packaged for users. You can use software manager to search for software and install. Mint (derived from Ubuntu) has a pretty good collection of most software. http://community.linuxmint.com/software/browse Note, these may not be latest since application versions tested to be stable are usually offered. If the application is not available in Software Manager , then 1) Search for *deb file (similar to .exe file in Windows) in the application's website. There maybe multiple versions available, e.g. 32-bit or 64-bit version. You can just click and install if it is one file. Else in case of multiple files, you can got to terminal and navigate (cd) to folder, type sudo dpkg -i *deb installs all deb files in the folder. By default, applications installed through software manager gets downloaded to /var/apt/cache and for future can be installed later by apt-get install command. If you ahve another machine with similar setupo just copy stuff from here to avoid multiple downloads. 2) Search for PPA of application. Some noble souls package applications for users w/o us worrying about dependencies or whatever. You can use Software sources in Mint to add PPA's or if you want to feel like nerd there is some apt-get command which I do not want to remember. ;-) 3) If it is not / no equivalent available at all, then for some applications, you can run using WINE. Hope this helps. -- Cheers, Anand Radhakrishnan When there is a drive, there is a path. [C:\>] _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
