Hi thanks a lot for all your comments, Sure I ll try compiling a program from
the source. Once again, thanks for your little help.
Hello Community; I m completely new to this OS and to linux and I m taking a
look at the add-remove aplications menu. I got many questions about how
installing programs and applications on my computer.
1. typing sudo apt-get install package_name on a terminal will be enough
to get an
1. typing sudo apt-get install package_name on a terminal will be enough to
get an app?. How does it works around here?, I mean this command works under
this OS, or there´s something different on Trisquel?.
so most gnu/linux distros such as trisquel have repo's
to make it easy to install
The aptitude show command lists information about a package, including
whether or not it's installed. For example, aptitude show icecat.
Note that FFmpeg is not in the repos. This is because it's been replaced with
avconv, a fork of FFmpeg (its package is libav-tools).
I see that tomlukeywood has answered the orignal questions, in addition:
It is not “app get”, it's “apt-get”, as you wrote correctly in the
message body. APT stands for “Advanced Packaging Tool”. “app” is
ostensibly a shorthand for “application”, but in practice it is a
marketing trash
I suggest you use sudo aptitude install instead of apt-get because it
have been proven to be better at handling flags and dependencies.
GNU linux
aptitude search is a very useful command too.
Honestly, apt-cache search is more powerful. aptitude search only searches
package names, apt-cache search searches everything in the package. (I do
find aptitude search useful, but mostly because I tend to already know most
of the package name.)
