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[Dirtbag59]

Originally Posted by That Guy

well some distros like redhat or ubuntu have package libraries, but any UI installer is just a UI wrapper on top of terminal commands, like pretty dos batch files more or less.

but i mean, it sounds like you're just looking for a package manager, which is basically a pretty face on top of apt-get:
HTG Explains: How Software Installation & Package Managers Work On Linux

so you just need to find the repo for your version of linux and use it like the apple or google app store.



does that answer it or am i missing the point?

Thats exactly it. Ironically enough shortly after that initial post I downloaded PackageKit which was a tar file for my ScientificLinux virtual machine. However that hit a bit of a snag. The ReadMe file said to cd to the folder with the program and enter ./configure which went smooth enough. However the steps telling me to type make and make install in the terminal didn't go as smoothly. Then I saw there was an Add/Remove Software program, the exact same one you have pictured in the post above, in the administrative tools so I started messing around with that. Then I got a headache and had to sit down.

Long story short my ADD is going into overdrive with this stuff, lol.

I also decided to mess around with Puppy Linux for my oldest laptop (2008 dual core HP) which has gone relatively smooth but it also has its own learning curve. For example I learned that Puppy Linux doesn't have a Desktop directory so messing around with the links on the desktop is slightly different.

However I think now I'm catching on a lot quicker to the little stuff. For example when I saw the links on my desktop of Puppy Linux reading sda1, sda2, sdb1, sdc1 I knew almost right away which drive they corresponded too so hooray progress.

Anyway todays lesson for my online course is messing around with tar packages but last I checked the focus of the lesson seemed to be more on compressing directories to send out rather than unpacking them but we'll see lol.