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Moving to Linux®: Kiss the Blue Screen of Death Goodbye! Second Edition
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Moving to Linux®: Kiss the Blue Screen of Death Goodbye! Second Edition

by Marcel Gagné
August 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
512 pages
10h 11m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 7. Installing New Applications

The average Linux distribution CD comes with several gigabytes of software. SuSE, for one, delivers several CDs in a boxed set with enough software to keep you busy for weeks, maybe months. I'll tell you how to install that software, easily and without fuss. Despite all that your distribution has to offer, sooner or later you will find yourself visiting various Internet sites, looking for new and updated software. Where will you find this stuff, and will installing be the same as getting it from your CDs?

Before we get into finding, building, and installing software, I'd like to address a little myth. You have no doubt heard that installing software on Linux is difficult and that it is inferior to what you ...

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