{"id":2765,"date":"2013-04-28T12:13:04","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T16:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/?p=2765"},"modified":"2013-06-20T11:46:52","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T15:46:52","slug":"installing-software-in-ubuntu-13-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/installing-software-in-ubuntu-13-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Installing software in Ubuntu 13.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" style=\"border-width:0\" src=\"http:\/\/i.creativecommons.org\/l\/by-sa\/3.0\/88x31.png\" \/><\/a><br \/>This work is licensed under a <a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/\">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The best way for new users to install software in Ubuntu is using the Ubuntu Software Center. This is a similar process to using Apple&#8217;s App Store or Google&#8217;s Play Store to install applications&mdash;one central location to manager your applications.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-content\/uploads\/softwarecenterraring01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-content\/uploads\/softwarecenterraring01-300x153.jpg\" alt=\"softwarecenterraring01\" width=\"300\" height=\"153\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-content\/uploads\/softwarecenterraring01-300x153.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-content\/uploads\/softwarecenterraring01.jpg 314w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/> <br \/>\nFirst, find the <em>Ubuntu Software Center<\/em> icon, which will oddly have an <strong>A<\/strong> on it instead of something indicative of the name <em>Ubuntu Software Center<\/em>. Click it to launch.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-content\/uploads\/softwarecenterraring02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-content\/uploads\/softwarecenterraring02-300x130.jpg\" alt=\"softwarecenterraring02\" width=\"300\" height=\"130\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2767\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-content\/uploads\/softwarecenterraring02-300x130.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-content\/uploads\/softwarecenterraring02.jpg 868w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/> <br \/>\nOnce it&#8217;s launched, you can search in to the top-right corner for part of the name of the application you&#8217;re looking to install. In this example, I&#8217;m trying to install <strong>ubuntu-restricted-extras<\/strong>.\n       <\/p>\n<p>\nOnce you&#8217;ve found what you want, click <strong>Install<\/strong>.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-content\/uploads\/softwarecenterraring03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-content\/uploads\/softwarecenterraring03-300x115.jpg\" alt=\"softwarecenterraring03\" width=\"300\" height=\"115\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-content\/uploads\/softwarecenterraring03-300x115.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-content\/uploads\/softwarecenterraring03.jpg 740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/> <br \/>\nEnter your password when prompted.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-content\/uploads\/softwarecenterraring04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-content\/uploads\/softwarecenterraring04-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"softwarecenterraring04\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2769\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-content\/uploads\/softwarecenterraring04-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-content\/uploads\/softwarecenterraring04.jpg 442w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/> <br \/>\nWait for the installation packages to download and install.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-content\/uploads\/softwarecenterraring05.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-content\/uploads\/softwarecenterraring05-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"softwarecenterraring05\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2770\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-content\/uploads\/softwarecenterraring05-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-content\/uploads\/softwarecenterraring05.jpg 955w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/> <br \/>\nIf you notice a gray question mark appear on the bottom-left corner, you may have to click it to take care of a dialogue (e.g., agreeing to some terms of use).\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-content\/uploads\/softwarecenterraring06.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-content\/uploads\/softwarecenterraring06.jpg\" alt=\"softwarecenterraring06\" width=\"256\" height=\"143\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2771\" \/><\/a><br \/> <br \/>\nWhen you see the green check mark on the application package&#8217;s name, it&#8217;s all done installing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. The best way for new users to install software in Ubuntu is using the Ubuntu Software Center. This is a similar process to using Apple&#8217;s App Store or Google&#8217;s Play Store to install applications&mdash;one central location to manager your applications. First, find the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/installing-software-in-ubuntu-13-04\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Installing software in Ubuntu 13.04<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[863,851,852,864,865],"class_list":["post-2765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-installing-software","tag-raring-ringtail","tag-ubuntu-13-04","tag-ubuntu-software-center","tag-ubuntu-software-centre","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2765"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2799,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765\/revisions\/2799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}