“Mini How To” Install and search for packages with apt.
Looking for how to install packages bij the “point and click” method click here.
Let’s say you wanna install a package but you don’t know for sure if it’s in the repository’s. Then you can use this Terminal command to do so:
We’ll search for firefox as an example.
apt-cache search firefox
As you can see this displays a list of all packages related to Firefox.
Now let’s install Firefox:
Here we have to use sudo or apt won’t work and tell you:
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13 Permission denied) E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?
so let’s install:
sudo apt-get install firefox
Put your password in and answer yes to any questions.
And start using Firefox.
You could start Firefox from the Terminal( for debugging purposes) like this:
firefox
Or maybe you don’t want the debugging info add a space an &
firefox &
You can find Firefox under the start menu start->internet->Firefox
That’s it for this “Mini How To”.