Debian 12 - The First 12 Things You Should Do After Installation!

[Music] thank you hello and welcome back now recently I've reviewed Debian 12 the latest version of Debian is just awesome in my review I had a lot of great things to say about it and I highly recommend it now if you followed along with me and you now have Debian installed on your laptop or desktop then what should you do with it well obviously you should use it and enjoy it but that's not why you're here the reason why you're here is because you want to know which 12 things you should do first after installing Debian 12 and that's exactly what I'm going to show you in today's video now before we get into that I need to take a moment to mention the sponsor for today's video Akamai connected cloud if you're looking for a cloud provider that's affordable flexible and reliable then look no further than Akamai connected cloud with akamai's Cloud platform you can spit up Linux servers quickly and the platform contains all the features you'll need to deploy full-featured Solutions and using 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could do is click on activities and then down here we have an icon for Gnome software so we'll open that and then what you want to do is click on this tab right here where it says updates and then all we have to do is click this download button right here to start the process if you want more information about what in particular is going to be updated I mean it just shows system updates right here it doesn't give us a list but if we click on it we'll see a list and at this time we only have this one update and depending on when you're watching this video you might have more than this anyway what we'll do is Click download to start the process and then the icon change to restart and update so I'll click on that and what that'll do is restart the system to make sure that Debian is fully updated if you are not running the desktop version of Debian then in the command line here's what you can do we can switch to root and we can do that by typing SU hyphen and then root just like that we'll type in Root's password and now as you can see from The Prompt we are using the root account then what we could do is type apt update that'll refresh the package repository index essentially it checks in to see if any new packages are available for download and installation so I'll enter that and it's telling me that all packages are currently up to date that makes sense because W12 is brand new however if we did have updates then what we would run is apt and then dist hyphen upgrade and that'll download any packages that are currently installed but have newer updates available now if you haven't enabled the root account and you only have a user account like the one I have here then what you could do is run it sudo apt update as your normal user and again apt update will refresh the package repository index so nothing different here other than the factory using sudo but the end result is exactly the same and similarly to our previous example in normal user mode we could run sudo and then apt disk hyphen upgrade to install the available updates and that should be all there is to it now the next thing we're going to do is install flat pack flat pack is an optional package that we can install that gives us access to even more software in addition flat pack will give us access to newer versions of applications that are currently installed now installing flat pack will not automatically update applications you have installed right now but what it will do is give us access to newer applications that we could choose on an as needed basis and not only that a few of the examples in this video are going to require flat pack support so we'll just go ahead and get that taken care of right now so to set it up what we'll do is run a few commands in a terminal if you're using the Debian over SSH for example then you already have a terminal connection going so you have what you need to install flat pack if you're on the desktop version like I am then you'll need to open up a terminal so for you what you could do is click on activities we'll open up our applications and then we'll click here for terminal and that'll open up a terminal that we can use to install what we need for this section and to do this we'll need to install two packages I'm logged in as a normal user on my end that does have sudo support and since sudo support is enabled I can run sudo and then apt install and then I can type in the package names of the packages that I want to install right here now if you decided to enable the root account when you install Debian then what you could do is switch to the root account again that's going to be Su hyphen and then root just like that that'll switch you over to root you'll have to type in the root password but I'm going to use the sudo method because well I have sudo access everything after the sudo command will not change regardless of whether you're using your normal user or the root account anyway I'll run apt install the first package is going to be surprisingly flat pack next we'll type the name of the second package now I do want to mention though that this is only for those of you that are running The Gnome desktop if you are not running the gnome desktop then you don't need to install this anyway the name of the package is going to be gnome hyphen software hyphen plugin and then hyphen flat pack so those are the two packages right there that we'll be installing or just the one package if you're not running no anyway I'll press enter I'll type in my super secret password and that's all there was to it we now have flat pack support within our Debian installation however there's one more thing that we should do to make this even better what we're going to do is add the flat Hub repository for flat pack it's going to be the largest repository of flat pack software that you can find online so we definitely want to add this and just like before we're going to want to use sudo or be logged in as root for this particular command now this command will probably work even without root access or Sue access but that's going to enable user mode for flat packs and that's not something that we want to do that's something that I'll explain in a future flat Pack video on this channel but for right now we'll just make sure to use sudo with this command or if we're logged into root then we won't need sudo but here's the actual command that we'll be running we're going to run flat pack remote hyphen add and then we'll type dash dash if Dash and then not Dash exists just like that the repository that we'll be adding is again flat Hub so we'll type flat Hub right here and then we'll type the repository URL after that which is going to be https colon slash slash ub.org and then slash repo slash and then flat hub dot flat pack repo and just take a moment to make sure that you've typed everything exactly as I have it here and this command will also be listed in the official blog post for this video which will be linked below anyway I'll press enter and now we've not only installed flat pack support on our WN installation here but we've also installed the flat Hub repository as well so we should be done with the terminal so what I'll do is just exit out of here and then the next thing we'll do is we'll reap our Rewards we could go up here to activities and then we can open up gnome software we're going to click this button if it appears to restart gnome software now it's refreshing so that's a good sign so far and well here we go so so far it won't look like anything has changed but we do have access to additional software and what I'll do is give you an example if I go up here to the search icon and click on it I could type in the name of an application that I want to search for I'm going to search for a text editor I think that's a fairly simple example and right here we have text editor but it shows that it's already installed but I have yet to install a single flat pack so what's going on here well let's click on it I think this might be an even better example than I thought because right here we could choose which version we want the Debian version or if we drop this down we could choose the flat pack version via flat hub now you're not going to see both sources listed every single time not every application is available on flat Hub just like some of the applications that are found in the flat Hub repository won't be found in the normal Debian repository but in a situation where an application is listed for both you will have an opportunity to select which version you want now the version that's already installed is the Debian version or the dev package essentially this means that the version that you'd get by running apt install is what we have right now and we can open it because well it's installed but what I'm going to do and you don't have to follow along with me this is just an example we'll use flat pack later on in the video so even if you don't practice with me right now you'll get your practice later anyway what I'm going to do is delete this version this will delete the APT version that's pre-installed here in Debian and to do that I'll type in my password and now it's removed so what I'll do now is install the flat pack version by choosing that version right here I'll go ahead and install it and now we can see that the flat pack version of The Gnome text editor is what's currently installed now let's scroll down here and we can see that the version is version 44. now if I was to scroll up and then drop this down to the Debian version on the other hand and then scroll down we can see the version is older and this is a great example for why I recommend that you install flat pack support I mean consider this the version of this particular application offered by flat Hub is version 44 which is newer than the version that Debian includes by default now there's no reason why you have to upgrade it if the installed version works just fine for you then you should probably leave it well enough alone but what if you wanted to take advantage of a newer feature in a newer version if that's the case then you can make the decision if you want to to install the newer version if you don't want to do that well just leave it well enough alone again this is not going to force applications that are currently installed to be updated to the flat pack version this isn't going to make any changes to your software unless you decide to make that change yourself and now you have flat packs available to you here in Debian now the next thing we're going to do is install Firefox but wait a minute if I click on activities I have a Firefox icon right here so why would I need to install Firefox if it's already installed well I'll show you exactly why you might want to consider doing this let's click on the version that's pre-installed here in Debian which is going to be the ESR version of Firefox so click on that and here we have Firefox now at first nothing is going to stand out when you see this I mean it's Firefox you've probably already seen Firefox before however we click right here and then go down to help and then click about at release time we have Firefox version 102.11 and the version that we have here is 11 yes 11 versions behind the version of Firefox that's offered for General download the reason for this is the ESR version of Firefox that version is going to be updated much more slowly than normal Firefox so what I'm going to recommend that we do is uninstall Firefox and install the latest version however in Debian the latest version is not offered this is it this is what we have so what we'll do is close Firefox and then we'll open up gnome software just like we've done a few times in this video so far and then what we'll do is search for Firefox and here it is so we'll click on it and here we only have the flat Hub version because this is technically a different version of Firefox altogether this is normal Firefox it's not the ESR version flat Hub is going to give us the latest version since this doesn't give me the option to uninstall the Debian version of Firefox what I could do instead is open up a terminal and I could just type terminal right here to find that right here in the list and then what we're going to do is run sudo after remove or again just after move if you're running under root and that's the last time I'll mention that we're going to uninstall Firefox hyphen ESR I'll type in my super secret password I'll confirm the change and Firefox should now be removed from the system so if I go up here to activities we no longer have a Firefox icon down here in the tray if I click on applications we will not see the Firefox icon at all because we uninstalled it however that's okay because we have an option to install Firefox right here and we're going to install the flat Hub version so click on install we'll let that run and as you can see it's now installed the install icon has turned into a trash can icon to signify that we can remove the application because it's installed now one thing I'll point out here that's really important to understand is that as you can see right here this is being provided by Mozilla and this means by installing this particular application right here we are installing Firefox directly from Mozilla which means we'll get the latest version as soon as Mozilla releases that it even says right here this is blessed by Mozilla so Mozilla is providing this to us via flat hub now something to point out is that right here it says that Firefox is unsafe and this is completely untrue now the reason why it's showing up is unsafe in the first place here is because gnomes developers made a very bone-headed decision to Mark everything on safe that's not using the Weyland windowing manager that's going to be what takes over from xorg it's technical not going to get into that so in this case we can completely ignore that warning anyway if I close out of this and go back to activities and right here we have Firefox we uninstalled the Debian version and now we have the flat pack version and to add Nikon to the panel down below I could right click on this and pin to dash that adds Firefox down here and I can move it around as well back to its original position and now if I go here and then click on help and then about we see here that we have the flat pack version and we have version one one three so it's newer than the version that Debian provides and we can ignore this right here let's just go to a website to make sure that everything is working I'll go to mine for example and it's working just fine so now we have a more updated Firefox here in Debian thank you all right for the next tweak that I'm going to give you guys I'm going to show you how to install Thunderbird now for this I recommend that you also install flat pack support which we've already covered earlier in this video as long as you have that set up and ready to go what we'll do is click on activities and we'll click here for Gnome software before I continue though I just want to point out that we already have an email client here in Debian we have Evolution now in my opinion Evolution isn't all that great compared to something like Thunderbird again that's just my opinion some people might disagree with me on that now one thing to point out about the evolution email client is that sometimes it can work better with Microsoft Exchange so if you are working for a company that uses exchange and you want to download your email then you might need to use Evolution for that reason however for all other use cases though I think Thunderbird is just a better fit and since I already have flat pack support here on this particular installation what I'll do is search for Thunderbird and before I even finish typing Thunderbird we see it here on the list but we see two different versions of Thunderbird here so I'll just click on the first one and the first one is going to be the Debian version the APT version but let's go ahead and download the flat pack version and Via process of elimination is probably this one I'll click on it and sure enough it's offered by flat Hub and I'll just click install and just like I mentioned earlier the flat pack version will make sure that we have the latest version of Thunderbird so let's open it and here it is we have Thunderbird installed on our system now the thing is I'm not going to set up my email account on this computer because it's just a demo installation but if you have an email address with an email provider you can type in your information right here click continue and it should find your account if you have any trouble at all you can check the documentation because some email providers might have some specific things that you have to set but for the most part Thunderbird should find the server settings for your email account and set that up for you I'll leave that part up to you but anyway we have Thunderbird installed right here on our system so if you want a great email a client well now you have one alright so in this section what we're going to do is install Google Chrome and this is for those of you that use Chrome as your daily browser or maybe you just want Chrome installed along with your other browsers but either way we're going to get Chrome installed the first thing we'll do though is open up Firefox the web browser that comes with Debian so you should all have this available so we'll click right here to launch Firefox and with this open what we're going to do is navigate to chrome.google.com just like that and then we'll click right here where it says download Chrome and it says get Chrome for Linux so it already knows that we're running a Linux distribution and in my case it has automatically detected that it's a Debian or Ubuntu style distribution because this option right here is already selected so what we'll do is click accept and install and it's already done so click right here to open up my downloads directory and as you can see we have the Debian version right here of Google Chrome and to get this installed what I'll do is right click an empty portion of the window right here I'll click open in terminal so that brings up a terminal and if I list the storage you can see right here we have Google Chrome stable now to install it what we'll do is run sudo and then apt we'll give it the option install we want to install Google Chrome and since the package is not in the Debian repositories at all what we're going to do is reference the locally downloaded version right here so I'll type dot forward slash and then I'll start typing Google Chrome I don't need to finish that though after I type a few characters I can simply hit Tab and that will auto complete the file name so I'll press enter and even though I downloaded Google Chrome from the official website there's still going to be some additional dependencies that are required for it to work the APT install command understands this and is going to go ahead and take care of that for us which is why I decided to run the APT install command even though I downloaded a package from the official website I'll press enter to accept the default of yes and we can ignore this error right here what I'll do is click on activities then applications and take a look at this we have Google Chrome if we want this to be visible in the panel down below we can right click on it you can pin it to the dash even move it right next to Firefox if that's what we want to do anyway I'll click on it I don't need this terminal window anymore I'm not going to make it the default browser in my case that's up to you if that's what you want and I'm going to make sure to not send Google any information I think they probably have more than enough information at this point anyway I'll click ok and now we have Google Chrome to make sure that it's working what I'll do is just visit the main website for this channel and there we go as you can see Google Chrome is working and now that we've tested it I'm going to close out and I'll delete the Google Chrome download here we no longer need that so I'll right click it move it to the trash and well we have Google Chrome installed here in Debian sorry to interrupt myself but I just wanted to let you know that I really enjoy making this content for you guys I have a ton of fun if you enjoy the content that I produce then please consider supporting learn Linux TV the thing is producing content like this isn't cheap so by giving back to the channel you can help me make even more content for you guys and to find out more about how you can support learn Linux TV what you could do is go to support.learn linux.tv and there you'll find some of the ways that you can help support the channel anyway let's get back to the video all right so next what we're going to do is fix an actual problem within Debian and the problem here is that the version of LibreOffice that's shipped with Debian and here's the icon for it right here this version is completely out of date if I click help and then about LibreOffice we can see that the version is 7.4.5.1 now the thing is a new major version of LibreOffice is available and the developers recommend that you stop using the 7.4 series of LibreOffice and move on to a newer version but you might be thinking why is that a problem what's so bad about 7.4 well here's the thing Microsoft Office is constantly being updated and Library office also updates to match compatibility for Microsoft Office if you're using an older version of LibreOffice you're just going to well have problems as Microsoft Office grows and ages and new versions are released the version that's installed here in Debian will never change so the version here in Debian will never benefit from all the improvements the developers of LibreOffice are adding to the project so here's what we're going to do we're going to close out of LibreOffice then we're going to bring up gnome software I should probably leave it open at this point since we keep going back into it so many times anyway we're going to click on installed and then we'll find LibreOffice in the list right here well keep scrolling keep scrolling and we're going to uninstall each component of LibreOffice one by one so I'll click on the first one here let's uninstall that and then I'll scroll down yet again and now it's gone so if I go up here to activities and then I click on show applications we should not see LibreOffice anywhere here in the list and actually well I still see it even though we uninstalled it it's still right here so what we'll do is open up a terminal that should be right here and what I'll do here inside the terminal is run sudo apt remove and then I'll paste in a list of packages these are a list of packages that might be left over you might have a few of these or maybe even none of these we just want to make sure that Library office the install Debian version is completely removed and here's the list of packages if you want to copy and paste you could grab it from the blog post for this video that's going to be linked below but here I have the list of packages I'll just press enter and we'll get these removed I'll go ahead and press enter and now we should have LibreOffice fully removed from the system if I go back to activities and then applications will make sure that we see no LibreOffice icons at all whatsoever and well I don't good sign so far so now let's open up gnome software yet again we'll go ahead and search for you guessed it LibreOffice and here in the search results we'll have a number of selections for various Library office applications however if I click on one of these you'll see that these refer to the Debian version which is the one that we don't want and the same is true here but if we scroll down we'll see LibreOffice mentioned by itself we'll click on that we'll make sure that it's the flat Hub version I'll click install and that'll make sure that we do have LibreOffice installed here on Debian but a more appropriate version and that's done so I'll click open and there's LibreOffice we should also have an icon here in the applications menu for LibreOffice and we can see that we do we have several different icons here for the various Libre office applications so far so good and then from here we can start a new writer document a spreadsheet and so on and we are currently running get this version 7.5 instead of 7.4 so we have fixed the problem on debian's side they should always be giving you the most updated version of Library office they should absolutely be an exception in their packaging rule but that doesn't matter because well we fixed the problem ourselves and we have the latest version of LibreOffice right here in Debian now it's time for a very fun trick this is going to be really really awesome if you don't already know about this we're going to install additional desktop environments now I'm sure you might have already known that you can do that but there's a special command that makes this very easy so what I'll do is click on activities and we'll open up a terminal and what we'll do is run this Command right here we're going to launch an application called task cell when I press enter and then I type in my super secret password we get this handy menu right here which enables us to choose additional desktop environments so I could choose as many of these as I want but I'll select KDE plasma for right now I could do so by pressing space on the keyboard and again you could install more than one you don't have to install only that one but I'm going to stick to that one for right now then I'll press tab that brings me down to the OK button and then I'll press enter and that's it we're installing the KDE plasma desktop the test cell command that I just gave you gives you an option as you've just seen two select a desktop environment and now in my case KDE plasma is installing now what we could do is log out of our session and what I'll do is just restart you shouldn't have to restart though logging out should be more than fine but I have seen some situations where other desktop environments might not show up unless you do a full restart of course there's ways to solve that that go outside of the scope of this video so to keep it simple what I'll do is restart my system right now and back here in the login screen what I'll do is just click on my username and then down here I'll click on the gear icon and I apologize for the weird screen resolution it's just something to do with my screen recorder something about login screens are hard to capture apparently anyway I'll click on this gear icon and any additional desktops that you might have installed will be shown here on this list and check this out we have plasma so I'll choose the X11 version of plasma and then I'll continue and type in my password and here we have the plasma desktop feel free to check it out or whichever desktop environment you just so happen to install install as many as you'd like that's one of the great things about Debian is that you could play around with various software and you should definitely check out the software in Debian because it has one of if not the largest repositories of Linux software out there so moving right along and for this particular tweak what we're going to do is install the Nvidia driver and this is for those of you that have an Nvidia GPU so if that's not you you can safely skip this particular tweak now if you have no intention of playing computer games at all and you also have no intention of working with 3D modeling you don't really need to do this if everything is working just fine as is then you can leave your video driver well enough alone however if you do plan on playing games or anything that features 3D rendering for example and you also have an Nvidia GPU then you should definitely consider installing the Nvidia driver to get the full power out of your Nvidia GPU and that's what we're going to do in this section now when it comes to most proprietary hardware and Nvidia gpus are considered proprietary here in Linux the fact is Debian is going to set up most of that for you but you might still need to install the Nvidia driver here on my system it's not installed at all now before we can install the Nvidia driver we have to enable the non-free repositories to do that we'll open up well gnome software for the 50th time at this point we'll go up here to the hamburger menu and click on software repositories a new window will appear this one right here and what we want to do is check the non-free boxes right here this one as well and we'll close it's going to give us an option to reload the package repository index which we probably should do so I'll click reload otherwise if we don't do that the APT package manager won't know that anything's different anyway I'll close out of here and we'll open up a terminal and what we'll do is install the Nvidia driver package so in my case I'll run sudo and then apt install and the package that we want to install is NVIDIA hyphen driver just like that and there's going to be a number of dependencies here that are required that's okay I'll press enter to accept the default of y for yes and now the Nvidia driver is installing and here it's giving us a quick warning it's letting us know that the Nuvo driver is what's currently being used that's the open source version of the Nvidia driver this message is simply telling us to reboot the system to make sure that the Nvidia driver is selected and that's okay we could reboot after this that's no problem at all I'll press enter and we're all done so what I'll do is just reboot the system like I mentioned give it a full restart and we should have the Nvidia driver as soon as it reboots and now that I'm logged in we should be using the Nvidia driver and one way to know is to click on activities and then go down here to Applications we should see an Nvidia application here in our list and here it is NVIDIA X settings so if I click on that then I go down here to GPU we can see that it has indeed detected the GPU here on this system on my end I'm using the GeForce GTX 1050 TI which is very old at this point but since this is just a footage PC I guess it doesn't really matter anyway I have the Nvidia driver installed as you can see so now I should be in good shape to play computer games and as a matter of fact in the next section we're going to install Steam are you into PC gaming well if you are then you might want to install Steam within Debian and that's very easy to do what we could do is click on activities and open up gnome software and at this point I highly recommend that you followed an earlier suggestion to install flat pack support and the reason for that is the flat pack version of steam is probably going to be the best fit what we'll do here in Gnome software is search for steam and we should see it right here in the search results if we click on it we should see that the source is flat hub and that's again what we set up earlier but what I'm going to do is simply click on install it's that easy and now that that's taken care of I'll click open and if you get this message right here it's just letting you know that you can install the steam devices package via app if that's something that you want to install you might need that for Gamepad support for example not sure how many of you will need that but anyway we'll click ok and I'll go ahead and close out of this and we can see that the text size is very small here that's quite common with steam this is a 4K display and this must not be the 4K version of steam it shouldn't matter though that should correct itself in an update and it's updating right now so we'll just let it finish and I'll be right back and take a look at that steam is open it's working now I'm not going to sign into my account I have no intention of playing games here on my footage PC of all things but if I wanted to I could and we could also see that the smaller font size issue was automatically fixed when it finished updating so steam should be good to go feel free to log in and play some Linux games alright so next up what we're going to do is make sure that we have proper multimedia support here in Debian but in order to have access to a package that will be installing shortly we will need the non-free version of the Debian repositories enabled if you've already installed the Nvidia driver as I showed you earlier in the video then you've already done that but just in case you haven't all you have to do is go up here to activities gnome software we'll click the hamburger menu right here we'll go to software repositories and we'll make sure that the non-free repositories are all checked so for reference you can see which ones I have enabled right here I've enabled all of them so that's not a bad thing to do actually so feel free to enable each of these but at least enable the non-free ones but once you do enable the non-free ones then all of these should be selected anyway once you do that we should be good to go I'll close gnome software for now because we're going to use the terminal for this part and what we'll do is install two packages what we'll do is run apt install and the first package will be lib AV codec hyphen extra just like that and for safe measure I'll also install VLC it's a classic video player at this point so we may as well have that installed and that should by itself include every component within that particular application that it'll ever need and for the lib AV codec package what that's going to do for us is provide all the multimedia codecs to any other application that may not have that built in so I'll press enter I'll press enter again to accept the default of yes now at this point now that we have all of these packages installed you should have no problem when it comes to viewing multimedia files and even if you do have a problem with multimedia files then all you should have to do in that case is launch VLC we did install it so if a built-in player isn't working you might well use VLC it's a great application anyway and it supports all the popular multimedia formats music video it should all work and at this point you should have proper multimedia support here in Debian it was that easy we installed the lib a b codec extra package as well as the VLC package and that's all there is to it foreign so moving along the next thing that I'm going to show you guys how to do is set up the back ports repository in Debian now since we're close to the initial release of Debian 12 there's probably not going to be a whole lot in that repository right now so this is something that we're setting up in case we need it in the future the back ports repository will include newer versions of applications that Debian has decided to make available in that repository updated kernels are an example of that anyway to install the back ports repository we'll open up a terminal and then what we'll do is run Nano we want to edit a file we're going to create a brand new file the file is going to be located underneath Etsy apt slash sources.list.d just like that and we'll name the file back ports got list so I'll press enter I'll type in my super secret password and what we'll do is add the repository line right here I've copied it into my clipboard I'm just going to paste it in and there it is so feel free to grab that line from the official blog post for this video link down below if you want to copy and paste that line but what we're doing is we're adding The Bookworm version of back ports so I'll save the file and then after that what we'll do is run sudo apt update want to refresh our package repository index because we did install an additional repository so I'll press enter and that's all there is to it the back ports repository is now installed now the thing is though there's not going to be anything of interest in back ports just yet again we're installing this just in case we need it in the future but if you do need it in the future how do you install a package specifically from that repository well I'll show you an example command that'll illustrate the process now you don't have to follow along with me though this is just an example I'm not going to install anything I'm just going to give you the command syntax that you'll use if there is something within back ports that you might want later first thing we'll do is start off the command the same as we always do app to install if we want to install a package but what we're going to do different is ADD Dash t then we'll type Bookworm hype and back ports followed by the name of the package and the reason why we have to do this is because when you install the back ports repository none of the packages within that repository if there are any packages in that repository will be installed by default regardless of which package you install it's always going to be installed from debian's default repositories before anything else in fact packages from Bookworm back ports will never be installed unless you specifically ask the APT command to install from that Repository and that's exactly what the dash T option does we give it a name for the repository in this case Bookworm back ports followed by the package name now again this is very early in the release cycle for Debian 12 so there's nothing of Interest here just yet but there should be soon this is something that I might explore again later but for right now I just showed you how to add the back ports repository within Debian so now we have that in case we need it all right so here's another tip for you guys we're going to install the synaptic package manager have a terminal open already and I'll show you the process of installing that package in a moment but what I want to do is just illustrate the problem I guess it's not so much of a problem I mean gnome software is fine but it's not going to always show you every application it's going to highly fixate on graphical applications but sometimes you'll be working with the command line and you want to install packages that are used on the command line it's not that you'll never find those applications here at gnome software it's just not the focus and gnome software itself like I mentioned is great so I'm not knocking gnome software at all but if you're a more advanced user or you just want more control over your packages then synaptic is a awesome application to install so what I'll do is run apt install synaptic just like that and in my case it's already installed it may or may not be installed already on your end but once it is installed you should find it in the list of applications here so I'll go to Applications and here we have synaptic so I'll click on it it's going to ask for my password so that's fine I'll type that in and this is just giving us a quick introduction now this application is not going to look as modern as gnome software does but an application like this doesn't really need to look modern because it's not about that it's not about style it's not trying to win a beauty pageant or anything like that but what this application is trying to do is be an efficient way of installing applications and it is exactly that just like any other package manager you can search for a package right here you can type in a search term and search for a package you can go to different uh categories here so we see there's a number of categories and you just scroll through this list here to find an application to install I'll just choose one at complete random so under games and amusement I'll click on that and what I'll do is just scroll all the way down and what I'll do is install Frozen bubble that's a fun game that I like to play every now and then so I'll click on the box right next to it I'll mark it for installation they'll then let me know which dependencies are required here for this application so I'll mark those as well and then we'll apply the changes and what I like to do is check the box right here to ensure that the dialog box closes on its own not a big deal but just something I prefer but anyway we've installed Frozen bubble via synaptic so if I check out the installed applications here yet again and scroll through the list we'll find Frozen bubble in the list so I'll click on it and there it is and unfortunately there's something going on with my screen recorder when I access the game in full screen mode it's not currently working my screen recorder can be finicky at times so that's nothing to worry about but Frozen bubble is a great and fun game to check out if you want to waste some time it's just a lot of fun to play and I highly recommend it but this isn't so much about Frozen bubble even though that is an awesome game we are focused here on the synaptic package manager which we now have installed and there's a number of people in my audience that prefer this package manager over gnome software and now that you have both installed you can make that decision for yourself by having synaptic installed is a great thing to have even if gnome software is your primary way of installing applications synaptic is also really good now synaptic is only going to show apt packages it will not show flat packs for example just keep that in mind you will need to use gnome software for flat packs but again synaptic is awesome it's a great thing to have and now we have it installed and there you go I've just showed you 12 things to do as soon as you install Debian 12 on your laptop or desktop and I hope you enjoyed it if you like this video then please click that like button to let YouTube know how much you love this video and that'll help YouTube understand that we need more Linux on YouTube anyway I have some additional content 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Length: 47min 20sec (2840 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 10 2023