Dec042012

How can I manually install apps without Ubuntu Software Centre in Ubuntu 11.10?

Arun Vishnu asks:

How can I manually install apps without Ubuntu Software Centre in Ubuntu 11.10 64 bit? Please help!


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Rohit Pandey

December 4, 2012
Giggity Goebbels

Works for me

December 9, 2012
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Adam Campbell

December 4, 2012

all you need is the name of the app you want. Open a terminal app and type
sudo apt-get install

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Junil Maharjan

December 5, 2012

you have to find the .deb file of the app you want. you need gdebi to install the .deb file.

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shaurya gupta

December 5, 2012

use terminal and type sudo apt-get install
or download the file of your app…

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Réy Aétar

December 5, 2012

https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/
or u can download the packages from the ubuntu ftp servers(but be aware of proper dependencies) then install the packages using synaptec or other package manager

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Vishal Srivastava

December 5, 2012

On terminal- sudo apt-get install

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Jose Paolo Gonzales Otico

December 5, 2012

You can use the terminal.

To search: sudo apt-cache search “”
A list of applications will show up.
To install: sudo apt-get install .

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Ali Ehsan

December 6, 2012

Run in Terminal
sudo apt-get install ( apps YOU want to install)

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Ali Ehsan

December 6, 2012

Run in Terminal
sudo apt-get install ( apps YOU want to install)

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Ali Ehsan

December 6, 2012

Run in Terminal
sudo apt-get install ( apps YOU want to install)

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Sashi Peiris

December 7, 2012

Run in Terminal
sudo apt-get install ( apps YOU want to install)

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Adriel Tan

December 7, 2012

The easiest way to install apps on Ubuntu without using the software center is to download a .deb file from the app’s website (e.g. Google Chrome) and double click and follow the instructions to install.

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Avish Kansakar

December 8, 2012

you will have to do it via the terminal with the command sudo apt-get and program name but i dont know why you would wanna do it that way unless you are really into installing apps via the terminal…

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Matthieu Moons

December 9, 2012

ctrl – alt – t (this opens a terminal session)
sudo-apt get install (app you want to install)
You’ll probably need the software center anyway to get the names of the app.

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Declan Lopez

December 14, 2012

you can usually find instructions online that tells you how to install application via command line

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David Commini

January 13, 2013

Like others have said, you can either obtain the .deb package and use gdebi to install or you can use the command line and use sudo apt-get install program-name.

Make sure that you have the proper ppa’s installed so you can install from the command line. And only install ppa’s from a trusted source.

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Jeff Fisher

January 17, 2013

Load Terminal and then type:
sudo apt-get install (name of app)

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cesar jimenez

February 26, 2013

I like to use terminal and run sudo apt-get install , I recently started using apt-fast.

copy paste this into the terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:apt-fast/stable && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install apt-fast

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fallen heart

March 16, 2013

to manually installl apps on linux u need all the files of that app that is .deb files on ubuntu and all the dependencies for it . dependecies are like requirement to run a particular application like on windows

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