Windows 10 to Linux Mint | Installing Programs

it's time to install some programs on our Linux Mint installation so we're not just gonna do a basic install I'm not gonna just pull up the software Center and say click install it should work perfect cuz any can do that yes I'll go ahead and show that just so you can see it works but we're gonna go into a lot of other ways to install programs so there's a whole variety of ways to install programs and I want to explain when you search out a specific program that may or may not be in the software store how does that work how do you install that program the only thing I'm not gonna cover in today's video is games that's gonna be a separate video on its own because there's so much that you can do with gaming and yes you can use other things other than steam and that type of thing but we'll get into it in the gaming video this one I just wanted to go over all the variety of programs you can use because if a program is Linux compatible you can install it on your Linux based system there are just some caveats to how to install it because some distributions Linux distributions are easier to install that program than others some people there's this myth out there that you can't install one program on one distribution you can't install it on another that's not a thing usually you can build up pretty much any program on any distribution it's just a matter of ease so with all that said let's not waste any time jump on the desktop get into installing programs and we're gonna go through a package manager we're gonna go over containerized installations we're gonna go over pretty much everything even even maybe even building from source so we're gonna start with the beginner concepts move all the way into expert territory so there's a little bit of something for everybody out there in this video so let's get into it I do live stream every Monday and Friday so if you have a question for me be sure and stop in to my twitch channel and ask me live and if you'd like to check out these streams after the fact you can always head over to chris titus tech streams and check out my entire archive over there alright we're gonna start on the software manager as i said this is the easy way to do it just come up into here where it says software manager click on it it launches and then you just simply say you know what I need some audacity I'm gonna do some audio editing I'll just go ahead hit install it'll prompt for a password or it'll just say you need these dependencies hit continue and that's it it'll just go in the background you can go through as it does this and install other things through the software manager but that's pretty simple I mean honestly you shouldn't run into any problems I will say there are times where you might install a program it'll just kind of you'll see the progress bar and then it just disappears and it says install again that means that program failed to install and there's something else usually a missing dependency that happens in the background that causes an issue so just be cognizant to that if you do click install and then all of a sudden it's not installed that means you probably need to go over one of these other methods so let's go to the next method let's say audacity didn't install how do we install that we'll go ahead and remove audacity and install it using another method this method you're gonna see a lot of how-to guides walk through installing and that usually revolves around terminal terminal can be scary but it's very powerful because of how quickly you can get things done so I always recommend people to get familiar with the terminal but I mean that's up to you because there's other methods we're gonna go over as well but I at least want to introduce you to the terminal and a package manager install as you're gonna see it in a lot of how-to guides on the web so if you're in mint or a bun - typically it's using the apt package manager that's kind of a mouthful so just know that if you ever see sue apt install that's what the package manager is it's apt or it'll say apt - get both do pretty much the same thing so we'll do apt into all audacity we'll type our password in it'll go through grab and install everything it's installed as you see that's why a lot of linux people like the terminal because it's fast you literally there's nothing to click you just type one command in and then away you go and the cool thing here is if there was a problem and I had that you know like I was saying earlier where the installed button just kind of reappeared I was like what the hell it didn't install the terminal would give you an actual error message where the software centers typically don't which is kind of unfortunate but here we go that's that's one way you could see an error message if you're having trouble installing something try app install in the package name is the next method really to do it so moving past that let's say you go to a website and you need to download something now here's kdenlive and there's a lot of different ways to install kdenlive you have the apt image which that's containerized storage anytime you see apt image flat-pack or snap snap install flat-pack install app image is just a container both all three are containerized storage what that means is everything's baked into this package meaning there's nothing else to install it it typically runs on every single Linux installation in existence it doesn't matter what distribution you're on if it's an app image flat pack or snap it typically just works so let me demonstrate that I'll click download of app image and then we'll just go ahead and pull up our downloads and run that so go to downloads we see the kdenlive app image we just have so we'll go to properties and from properties we go to permissions and then we say allow executing of the program and hit close now we right-click it still says open but we're going to go ahead and just click it to see what happens here is the nuke a live version 28 went ahead and launched it for me but some some distributions are a little different in in mints case you you need to make sure that is allowed to execute so right click properties make sure that checkbox is there I just wanted to mention that off the get-go and that's it there is nothing to install what happens when there's an update and you need to update this well you need to go back to the website download the new version and run it so containerized storage is interesting app image that's basically how it works flat pack and snaps you can actually update directly from them but again that's using the terminal and I'm not gonna get into flat pack or snaps in today's video but if you're interested in those I have separate videos going over flat pack and snaps and all their syntax by all means go into there do it I will just say for for flat pack mint comes with flat pack already installed and configured so if you go to the flat pack website which is flat hub org you can actually just search for your app let's say we want a discord we can just click install and we'll just go ahead and open this so here it is we'll just click install and continue and this downloads discord and installs it this is still using the software manager but this is kind of a combination of flat pack and the software manager so this is the flat pack but it is still using the software manager then when we did audacity uses the package manager this actually used flat pack just know sometimes it's not in here and you can install it directly this method or using command-line again if you get into the more advanced section of a flat pack and you need to drop to terminal I have an entire video going over flat pack this will go ahead and install discord for us and launch it for all of that and that's just two different methods of going about it using flat pack and then also have image now there is a way to expand the apt command in terminal if you go to e TC apt sources dot list dot d and we'll just do a listing right here you'll see one official package repositories but let's you need to add a repository you could actually create a file in here with just a couple DB files this is a little more complex and depending on the package you might need to change this up I do highly recommend not to do this only as maybe a last resort as I really don't like adding more repositories to my package manager as this can break your system if you're not careful so definitely be careful of that a lot of people say use ppas and if you know not sure what a PPA is it's a repository made by Ubuntu so if you're using Debian Edition definitely don't do this there's a good chance you're gonna break your system as the official Debian org has this article titled don't break Debian where it specifically says don't use Ubuntu ppas however if you're on a bun tube based Linux Mint the regular vanilla version not the LMDE you can go ahead and install another PPA directly in here using the terminal I'm not gonna show that today as I really recommend you not do this so with that said that is it we are pretty much done with Linux Mint installing programs I still have one more video to do in this series and that's gonna go over gaming there's some gaming tweaks I want to do and since we're you running the Debian edition there's gonna be a couple more tweaks we need to do to really make it work just as well as our Ubuntu counterparts some people think that a bunt is faster than Debian Ubuntu is based on Debian they just did some extra tweaks that we need to do ourselves so I'll go into more of that in the next video definitely look for that down below I'll go ahead and link to it once I'm finished with the series and with that I'll see you in the next one

Channel: Chris Titus Tech

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Length: 10min 22sec (622 seconds)

Published: Wed May 06 2020