Installing Stuff

[Rhys]

With Windows you download an exe or msi. Double Click and it installs. Pretty straight forward.

I have got Mint Linux 3.0.

How can I achive the same sort of user friendliness as a Windows install?

If I download a file onto a usb stick and want to install it on a machine with Mint Linux on how do I do it? It can be that hard?

 

[Rhys]

Synaptic Package Manager is very good.

If you have an Internet connection you can just about install anything you want. The beauty of the system is anything you download and install will be the latest version and also compatible.

If you need to install something on a PC running Mint that doesn't have an Internet connection you can download the packages and Synaptic will create a small script that can be loaded into the other PC and it will automatically install everything.

To install a .deb package from the command line, change directory to where the .deb file is and enter

dpkg -i nameoffile.deb

Tis dead easy once you have done it a few times.

Thanks,this bit Im trying to work out in my Windowsised brain

 

[Rhys]

As was said in the other thread [Why install Linux?] you basically need to delete the Windows way of things from your brain.

righty, right.