> I don't want to go to the local computer shop and say "Please install > Trisquel and the above software", when these software are already available > on the Trisquel operating system Add/Remove Applications list by default.
You shouldn't have to pay someone to help you with basic usage of your computer. When possible, I believe you should learn to understand your computer and take control of your own computing. If you can't find your own answer to something, ask for help online (here for instance). We should avoid paying for people to do basic computing that we can do ourselves, because if people can profit from the computer illiteracy of others there is a profit incentive to try to keep others in ignorance, which is antihuman. I'm going to walk you through how I find the information you are asking for so that in the future you can do it independently. I'm going to use the terminal when possible because its faster, but much of this could be done in Synaptic too if you prefer. Synaptic should be installed by default in Trisquel. Also note that I am using Trisquel 8, so some of my results may not apply to T7, but by the end you should know how to find any missing information yourself. ------------- begin walkthough ----------------- I'll bet a lot of these packages are in the repo. Let's check. $ apt-cache search bleachbit Huh. No results. $ apt-cache search bleach bit Nope, that didn't work either. I'll come back to that one. $ apt-cache search brasero brasero - CD/DVD burning application for GNOME brasero-cdrkit - cdrkit extensions for the Brasero burning application brasero-common - Common files for the Brasero CD burning application and library gir1.2-brasero-3.0 - CD/DVD burning library for GNOME - GObject introspection data libbrasero-media3-1 - CD/DVD burning library for GNOME - runtime libbrasero-media3-dev - CD/DVD burning library for GNOME - development rhythmbox-plugin-cdrecorder - burning plugin for rhythmbox music player Nice. Let's install it. $ sudo apt install brasero I repeat this process for all of the applications you list and find that Brasero, ClamAV, Evince, LibreOffice, Marble, and Wine are in the repo. I can install them all at once with $ sudo apt install brasero clamav evince libreoffice marble Note that it is fine if some of these are installed already. If so, they will be upgraded if updates are available and left alone if no updates are available. Now lets deal with the rest. BleachBit isn't in the repo. This could mean that it is proprietary or that it simply hasn't been packaged for Trisquel. Either way, it's safest to get our software from the repo so unless an application is free software and I have a specific need for it I will try to find a replacement that is in the repo. Here is a good resource for finding replacements for applications. [https://alternativeto.net] I must make two disclaimers about this site. First, it uses proprietary JavaScript, so I suggest that you use the site with JavaScript disabled. With JavaScript disabled you will not be able to filter by license within the site, but you may do so make performing your search and then appending '?license=opensource' to the URL. Second, you should not blindly trust the results. 'Open source' is not the same as 'free' (as in speech), [https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html] and because the results of this site are crowdsourced there is no guarantee that they are accurate. The site is useful for finding options, but you should try to pick an option that is available in the repo. If no options are in the repo and you want to investigate for yourself whether it is free software (if you are uncertain ask here) before installing (more on that later). https://alternativeto.net/software/bleachbit/?license=opensource localepurge looks promising. Is it in the repo? $ apt-cache search localepurge localepurge - reclaim disk space by removing unneeded localizations Cool. Let's install it. $ sudo apt install localepurge https://alternativeto.net/software/stacer/?license=opensource GNOME System Monitor? GNOME is the desktop environment Trisquel 7 uses, so I probably have this installed already (you do), but if not I'll see if it's in the repo $ apt-cache search gnome system monitor gnome-system-monitor - Process viewer and system resource monitor for GNOME $ sudo apt install gnome-system-monitor Why isn't Translate Shell in the repo. Is it proprietary? It seems not, but it does rely on Google Translate. That sucks, because Google Translate is an example of Service as a Software Substitute [https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html]. Let's look for an alternative in the repo. I'm not even going to check online because I bet it's going to be easy to search for. $ apt-cache search translate abcm2ps - Translates ABC music description files to PostScript apertium-br-fr - Apertium linguistic data to translate between Breton and French bibtex2html - filters BibTeX files and translates them to HTML coala - translates action languages into answer set programs enjarify - translate Dalvik bytecode to equivalent Java bytecode gnome-translate - GNOME interface to libtranslate hevea - translates from LaTeX to HTML, info, or text joy2key - Translate joystick movements into equivalent keystrokes libcanberra-gtk-module - translates GTK+ widgets signals to event sounds libcanberra-gtk3-module - translates GTK3 widgets signals to event sounds libjs-i18next - easy way to translate a website on clientside libjs-languages4translatewiki - Javascript globalization and localization for browser use libmoosex-meta-typeconstraint-mooish-perl - module to translate Moo-style constraints to Moose-style libmoox-late-perl - easily translate Moose code to Moo libtext-wikiformat-perl - translates Wiki formatted text into other formats libtranslate-bin - command line translator libtranslate-dev - Development files for libtranslate libtranslate0 - library for translating text and web pages libxml-compile-perl - Perl module to translate between XML and Perl based on XML schemas midicsv - translate MIDI file to CSV node-languages4translatewiki - Javascript globalization and localization for Node.js nowhere - Translates programs from an extended Standard ML to Standard ML python-cssselect - cssselect parses CSS3 Selectors and translates them to XPath 1.0 python3-cssselect - cssselect parses CSS3 Selectors and translates them to XPath 1.0 ruby-gyoku - translates Ruby hashes to XML trac-translatedpages - Show translated versions of wiki page in the Trac web application translate - translates words from English into German or viceversa translate-docformat - any-to-any document translation system translate-toolkit - Toolkit assisting in the localization of software gnome-translate sounds like it's part of GNOME, so it will probably work nicely with my desktop environment. If it isn't installed already... $ sudo apt install gnome-translate Hm. A Kindle reader for *GNU*/Linux [https://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html]? Well, it's wise to avoid Amazon [https://stallman.org/amazon.html], but there's nothing wrong with ebooks in general. $ apt-cache search ebook account-plugin-facebook - GNOME Control Center account plugin for single signon - facebook ebook-speaker - eBook reader that reads aloud in a synthetic voice ebook-speaker-dbg - ebook-speaker debugging symbols ebook-tools-dbg - library and tools to work with the EPUB file format - debug symbols ebook2cw - convert ebooks to Morse MP3s/OGGs ... ... ... Yikes. That yielded an overwhelming number of results, and I don't see what I'm looking for. I better refine my search. Even though I would do well to avoid the Amazon Swindle, I figure that an application that could read Kindle books can also read other ebooks. $ apt-cache search kindle kindleclip - User interface for managing Amazon Kindle's "My Clippings" file python-ebooklib - Python 2 E-book library for handling EPUB2/EPUB3/Kindle formats python3-ebooklib - Python 3 E-book library for handling EPUB2/EPUB3/Kindle formats Hm. I'm stuck. Better do a web search (using something like Startpage or DuckDuckGo, not yucky Google) for "ebook reader linux" (I know the difference between the Linux kernel and the GNU/Linux operating system, but many people don't so this will yield better search results). First result: [https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/4-of-the-best-ebook-readers-for-linux-users] Crap, this page is unreadable with JavaScript disabled. Let's try a different search result.: [http://sourcedigit.com/22361-install-calibre-3-0-ebook-reader-on-ubuntu-linux] Oh! If Calibre is in Ubuntu and is not proprietary, it's probably in Trisquel. I'm not even going to bother with 'apt-cache search'. Let's just try to install it and see if it works. $ sudo apt install calibre Awesome. Moving on. I don't want to have to figure out what driver my printer needs. Maybe there's a metapackage of free printer drivers, one of which I can hope works. $ apt-cache search printer driver (the number of results is managable, but large enough that I'm not going to paste it here.) Alright, printer-driver-all looks like what I want, and by now Mason doesn't have to tell me how to install it. Waterfox is not in the repo. Plenty of browsers are, but say I really want to use Waterfox and I have verified that it is free software.. Since I can't get it from the repo, the next safest place is from the developer. Looks like the developer distributes an archive that I can extract and use to launch the application from without even installing. I'll download it, extract it (easiest way placing the .tar.bz2 file where I want it, right clicking, and selecting 'Extract here') in a logical place (I have a directory in my home folder called Applications for things like this) and running the launcher. (I did not actually do this so I'm not sure exactly where it will be, but it will probably be called 'waterfox'). I don't want to have to navigate to this folder every time I use Waterfox. Luckily Mason recalls a recent thread in which Magic Banana explained how to do this with Tor Browser, which is similarly extracted from an archive and started with a launcher, so I can just read that thread. [https://trisquel.info/en/forum/how-install-packages-downloaded-web-icecat#comment-124837] ------------- end walkthough ----------------- Most applications can't be extracted and launched like Waterfox and Tor Browser, but this is enough information for one post and should be more than enough to get started. Good luck!
