Re: [Trisquel-users] installing apps with app get?.
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.
[Trisquel-users] installing apps with app get?.
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 app?. How does it works around here?, I mean this command works under this OS, or there´s something different on Trisquel?. 2. I wanted to try a program I cannot see in the add-remove applications menu. I ve seen video editor Openshot, which seems cool to me but I fail to see other linux video editors like Cinelerra. This means that maybe those programs I cannot see are not free software and will be rejected by the OS ?. How could I check if a concrete program is following or not free software principles?. I understand that Trisquel will reject all kind of linux software that does not follow free software principles . Am I right?. How does it works?., installation cancels?, not accepted program will not open up?. It just does not downloads from repositories?. 3. If I want to check if FFmpeg is installed or not on my machine, how could I do it from terminal?. sudo apt-get install ffmpeg would be enough for installing this program in case is not?. Thanks in advance to those who could answer something back!. Help very appreciated. Regards.
Re: [Trisquel-users] installing apps with app get?.
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 programs (you can install programs using other methods but this is the easiest) so when you type for example apt-get install pacman you are downloading the program pacman from the repo's and then installing it you can check were your downloading your programs from by typing nano /etc/apt/sources.list there a bit more to it than that buts this is a simple explanation also you can use graphical programs to do the same thing like trisquels add/remove programs program or synaptic package manager 2. i am not sure why this isnt in the repo's maby noone knew about it..? but its under the gpl and i just compiled it sucsessfully so i reccomend compiling it from source: http://cinelerra-cv.org/source_code.php and if you need help doing so just ask 3. type ffmpeg -h or use the synaptic package manager I understand that Trisquel will reject all kind of linux software that does not follow free software principles . Am I right? you can install non-free software on trisquel its just that the hole point of using the distro is its fully free so there a no non-free programs in the repo's
Re: [Trisquel-users] installing apps with app get?.
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).
Re: [Trisquel-users] installing apps with app get?.
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 word (“buzzword”) roughly synonym with “computer program”; used especially by proprietary software developers. I guess it's also another way of making fun of the ignorant clients who happily surrender their computing rights and hand their personal information to them (the developers). We have been using “computer program” for decades and it works perfectly, it means what it says. On the other hand, “app” is sloppy language, because the speaker doesn't ever bothers to write the full word, which is usually incorrect anyway. In informatics, an application is a generic way in which technology may be put to use, for instance, the world wide web, e-mail, optical character recognition, peer to peer file sharing, and so on are applications. Implementations thereof are not applications but computer programs. According to Wikipedia, “app” is a shorthand for “application software”, which is such as vague concept so as to be nearly useless (There is no clearly boundary between “operating system” and “application software” because any one would be arbitrary).
Re: [Trisquel-users] installing apps with app get?.
I suggest you use sudo aptitude install instead of apt-get because it have been proven to be better at handling flags and dependencies.
Re: [Trisquel-users] installing apps with app get?.
GNU linux aptitude search is a very useful command too.
Re: [Trisquel-users] installing apps with app get?.
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.)
