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    So I just switched over to Linux a few hours ago, my distribution is Kali Linux. I'm just wondering, is it really as inconvenient as it seems to me right now to install software? I just installed Google Chrome and I had to download a file, then type in a bunch of commands just to install it. I had to follow an entire tutorial just to install one software application; that seems a little bit ridiculous to me if I'm going to be using this as my primary OS.

    Am I doing something wrong? Is there a much easier way to install software like in Windows? Or do I really have to go through all of this each time I want to install something like Skype, Teamviewer, Eclipse, etc?
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    Um, since the introduction of the package manager, no installing programs is piss easy.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Father View Post
    Um, since the introduction of the package manager, no installing programs is piss easy.
    Isn't that only for less popular software? I couldn't have downloaded chrome, skype, teamviewer, and eclipse from there right. I tried to before when I was running ubuntu.
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    It uses apt, so you should definitely have no problem installing a lot of software out there. You could have installed chrome by downloading the prepackaged deb and ran it through dpkg. One line, not hard to do.

    What shows up in the repos depends on who manages them, licensing, etc. Chrome may not be in your repo but you'll probably find Chromium there.
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    Quote Originally Posted by anarchypk508 View Post
    Isn't that only for less popular software? I couldn't have downloaded chrome, skype, teamviewer, and eclipse from there right. I tried to before when I was running ubuntu.
    Almost the opposite. And if you were running Ubuntu, you could have just downloaded the Chrome .deb package and the Ubuntu software center would have taken care of the installation . It's really not as hard as you think
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    you should of done more research before actually using linux cause theres a lot of things you have to do manually to get things to work
    i personally dont mind the command-line installation but i can see where ur coming from, it was annoying at one point but then i got the hang of it
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    Code:
    sudo apt-get install chromium-browser
    Basic command to install chromium.
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    Yeah just use apt-get "packagename"
    or apt-cache "packagename" to search for a program
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