[SOLVED] installing programs without the software center?

I'm relatively new to linux & zorin, still learning a lot but I'm getting there.
It's a great OS, rarely lets me down and is so much more accessible and usable than windows!

Anyway enough praise and intro, here's my question, it's not regarding zorin directly but installing programs with zorin; specifically, how do you install a program in zorin from a tarball file? .tar.bz2 specifically. I'm sure I did it once before but repetition is the only key to learning something like this

Can anyone give me some tips and/or point me to a suitable tutorial?

Hi,

further to Swarfs suggestion above; you can install any package using the terminal commands, as long as you know the "EXACT" name of the package!!.

An example would be something like the command below:

Code:

sudo apt-get install firefox

which would install the full "firefox" web browser packages.

To remove a package, just use the "remove" command as opposed to the "install" command:

Code:

sudo apt-get remove firefox

and the command will remove the package "firefox"!!.

Regards Wolfman

thanks chaps, I got it installed without your help but your advice will certain be useful for the future when I need to install more complex programs. thankyou

acctually the removing commands may be more useful now as I've got a LOT of programs I don't use on here

How would one find the exact name of a program, in order to remove it, from the zorin menu? e.g. opera web browser, from the internet section.

Hi,

see also:

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2247

and:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptGet/Howto

I have marked this as solved!.

Regards Wolfman