When you install applications on any Ubuntu-based distribution, the apt package manager is utilized -- whether you use the command line or a GUI tool. The apt package manager connects with Personal ...
Wine is not an emulator like Qemu or a virtualization environment like Virtualbox, but a runtime environment that aims to emulate the Windows API on Linux. This API mapping is not complete, but it is ...
Every time a new Linux distribution version comes out, I install it. I just want to see how much it improved. This most recent time (Slackware 9.1) I was so impressed with Gnome 2.4, that I really ...
There are more than a half-dozen different ways to install a program.
Compiling from source is a little harder. With gnu automake/autoconf source code under linux compiling and installing source pretty much boils down to running the commands ./configure, make, make ...