URLS for downloading applications for linux

[caseylea2u]

I need some help w these URLS, to download a downloading application, for several programs such as photoscape. mainly photo editing programs. If someone could help me I'd greatly appreciate it!

[the dsc]

Photoscape is a windows program, it's possible that you can run it on linux, but it's probably not the first thing you should try. Instead, it may be better to look for alternative/equivalent applications that run natively.

Besides that, more often, you don't go to URLs to download software on linux, but rather you install everything by a package manager. It's not unlike windows' "add or remove software", except that is not mostly to uninstall things, but you can actually install the bulk, if not all that you will need through it, not just notepad and calc.

Most distributions have some graphical package manager, and somewhere in the interface you can search via keywords or browsing, through all the software that is available to install. Then you just go marking the one(s) you want to install, and click on "apply", and it's that. The program will download the program by itself and install it, and, in most cases, it's just that, it does not even ask anything after you apply, except confirmation.

On debian and its derivatives (like ubuntu) it's usually "synaptic" you should look for. If it's kubuntu it may be "adept" I guess. On redhat-based distributions (like fedora) it's usually "smart" I guess.

If you really need a windows application, you got to install "wine", and probably test a few different configurations and tweaks of various sorts until you have it working decently enough, which may not even happen.

[rokytnji]

mainly photo editing programs.

Linux alternatives in your package manager (synaptic in Ubuntu) for photoscape

Photoscape alternatives for Linux - AlternativeTo.net

[caseylea2u]

That's what I would like to do is install wine. I've experiemented with linux some, but my husband installed wine and all those compatable windows for me. Now we are divorced I'm downloading linux again to a different computer and not experienced with the codes and so forth. I know I do need to "install" WINE. Where can I get the codes or installation information for that?

[the dsc]

The package manager of your linux distribution should have wine, I guess most distributions have it ready for that "easier install". So you just got to take a look around the application menus, looking for "administrative"/"system" sections, and there should be something with a suggestive label. You run it, you will need the administrative password (root password, you've probably set it up on during the system install) to install. When the program is running, just search for "wine", mark to install, and press apply somewhere.

After that, you download the same installers you would download for windows (from download.com or tucows.com, to cite two good/trustworthy sites), but, after downloading, instead of just double clicking it to install, you have to right click and chose "run with wine", or something. Then the install will, hopefully, proceed just as if you were running windows.

If it does not, there are other resources like the wine headquarters site, and even forums like this one.


By the way, I just checked photoscape on the wine's "application database" page, and the most recent version, for one of the latest ubuntu releases, is rated "garbage", regarding compatibility. The previous one was "silver", though, so it's not all hopeless.

WineHQ - Photoscape 3.1



By the way, there's an application "play on linux", which, is a sort of "wine helper", but if you're going to use it for many programs, it would use more disk space than a normal wine install. But might make things substantially easier though.

Home - PlayOnLinux - Run your Windows applications on Linux easily!

I don't use it myself, I've never actually tried, so I can be of much help on how to use it, but the site seems to be very user-friendly.

[Segfault]

There are similar applications for Linux, my Wife is using Fotoxx.

[caseylea2u]

Can you tell me what "revert" means or is referance with? I'm in my software sources window right now, I typed in the APT line and clicked add source, for some reason it's not downloading atleast isn't acting like it's doing anything.

[the dsc]

I have the impression you're "on the wrong place" of the program, but I'm not quite sure.

I guess that "revert" is supposed to restore your sources list to how it was before the last change, but I'm not sure.


I don't think you would need to add any source, but it seems that is what you're doing.

You probably shouldn't need to change anything in the sources right now (unless you're trying that "play on linux" site, and it said to. I don't know if they have repositories, if they do, that's ok). Wine should be available by default. You'd just click on some "search" button, type "wine" there, then there would be a list with many wine-related items; you need to chose one that would be probable just "wine", mark to install, and go on.




Can you tell exactly which linux distribution you're using (ubuntu?) and which package manager program are you in?

[the dsc]

I just realized that sometimes doing things on the command line may be actually somewhat easier.

If you can watch youtube videos, you could check this one:

YouTube - ‪How to install Wine in Ubuntu 9.04‬‎

What the guy does is simply go to a terminal, and type "sudo apt-get install wine", enter, and just wait.


Here you don't need to find the package on a list and there's no chance you could change something you shouldn't.

[caseylea2u]

I have Ubuntu 10.04. I tried typing that into the terminal and this is what it says E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem. How do you manually run this?