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sudo apt-get install php5 mysql-server apache2

Open your terminal and type- sudo vi /var/www/info.php

sudo gedit /var/www/info.php

and write:
<?php
phpinfo();
?>

sudo service apache2 restart

localhost/info.php

sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin

1. Ubuntu Software Center

2. Command line

For the old school Linux users, this is familiar territory. The terminal and Synaptic uses the apt-get system which allows you to remove, add, or update applications easily and painlessly. All you need to install via terminal is administrator privileges and the name of the application you want. For instance, to install VLC, you will type;

Sudo apt-get install vlc

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This command basically downloads the necessary packages and installs them onto your computer, allowing you to use VLC. Some other common and useful commands are:

Sudo apt-get remove vlc

To remove the application, in this case vlc,

Sudo apt-get update

This command can take a few minutes to run, but once it is finished you can then upgrade any packages with updates available.

Sudo apt-get upgrade

This will update any packages with updates pegged to them in the system

Sometimes you may need to install a .deb package from the command line, especially if you are trying to install applications in Ubuntu server installs. To install a deb file called example.deb, type:

Sudo dpkg –I example.deb

Similarly, you can remove deb packages with the following command

Sudo dpkg –r example.deb

3. Installing a PPA

• It is not uncommon to have to install via ppa every now and then. Be sure to install ppas only from trusted sources, however, as you may leave your system open to people with malicious intent. To install a ppa:

• Open a terminal
• Open your browser and go to the application’s website you want to install
  Search for a heading somewhere to the effect of installing or adding this ppa.
  Make a note of the ppa’s location. For example, gwibber can look like ppa:gwibber-daily/ppa
• Now, in the terminal type:

  Sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gwibber-daily/ppa

• Once you hit enter your system will now fetch the ppa’s key.


• After you install any ppa, be sure to type the sudo apt-get update


• Enjoy your newly installed application!

4. Using synaptic package manager (spm)

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I personally try to avoid using synaptic package manager unless I absolutely have to partly because its interface is not the most informative unless you know absolutely what you are looking for. Ubuntu 11.10 no longer includes SPM by default so you will have to troll the software center to get it. Once you install it, launch it. SPM is basically a massive list with all the packages available for Debian and Debian derivatives like Ubuntu as well as all packages available to the repositories you’ve added. If you know

the name of the application or package you want, you can search for it in the search box, check the packages you want, mark for install, and then hit apply. If you do not know the name of the package you want, no worries, you can also search by typing a description. For instance, if you wanted to search for a new screensaver application, but don’t know the name of a particular one, you can search for “screensaver” and take a look at the packages available. You will see a variety of packages for gnome – screensaver, xscreensaver, etc.

Another feature here worth mentioning is the “Mark All Upgrades” button near the top of the application. This button, similar to sudo apt-get update, will search out all updates for packages you have installed and mark them all for installation. Hit apply.

5. Deb packages

Sometimes, software developers will prefer not to have their applications available in the repositories and will want to distribute them themselves such as Opera, or any of Google’s software available to Linux. Installing these is allot like installing software on Windows since you have to go to the site and install the package. Let’s use Google Chrome as an example.

1. Open your web browser (Ubuntu uses Firefox by default) and go to the google chrome home page
2. Then download the .deb package.
3. Once the package is downloaded, go to your Downloads folder
4. Double click on the .deb package
5. The Ubuntu Software Center will open
6. Hit install
7. Enjoy the program!

Sometimes, the software center will not open the application when you double click it even though it is a .deb package. Sometimes, you have to make the software center the default application for certain file types. To do so, right click on the package, go to properties, hit the Open With tab, then choose the software center as the default application to open with.

                                                                     
                                                                     
                                                                     
                                             
Unity is a great piece of desktop shell that will become even greater with Oneiric soon. 

But that's not my topic for toToday, my topic is a complaint about Unity, something that 

I hope will get better in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin.

But let me start with the very roots of this problem:

 Unity divides your programs into three different groups: Your favourite ones, 

those of which you know the name but which you don't need that often though and last

 (and also pretty much least)

 those of which you don't even know the name because 

you only need them in exceptional cases.

What about the accessibility of each of those groups?
Reaching the first group is some kind of a pretty easy task: 

You have its programs in the launcher at the left hand side of your screen. 

No problem at all.
Reaching the second group is no problem neither - if you are a keyboard lover:

 Hit the Windows key, ahem, of course, I'm talking about the Super key and

 then type in the first letters of your desired program until it appears in the results.

 Those who don't want to use a keyboard for opening programs,

 have to follow the same process as for group No. 3.
Reaching the third group means research: Open the dash,

 choose the applications lense (scope, or however they are called in Oneiric now…), 

choose the filtering option, decide which category is most likely to 

contain your program and browse this category hoping to find what you searched for. 

Not so easy, is it?

Unity is designed for - let's face it - 

computer beginners (what does not mean it would not be great for others!). 

Several problems appear when thinking about the text written above:
First: Have you ever watched one of those

 "most stupid assumable users" (as we call them in our country)

 using a keyboard and wondered afterwards not having strangled him? 

Quite likely that you answer this question with a "yes". 

It goes like "search for letter" → "hit" → "search for letter" → … and so on.

 Quite a frustrating thing. As a result,

 such a MSAU can't use the program search function really effortlessly. 

So he has the choice between a keyboard or a category research. 

The choice between hell and blood eagle -

 if you want to hear an extremely exaggerated comparison.
Second: For an occasional computer user the third group is quite a big one,

 so he'll often have to proceed as complicatedly as shown above.
And third: Try to explain this process to such a user. I promise: 

You will give up explaining before he will even have the possibility of

 giving up to try understanding what you are talking about. 

What do I want to tell with all that? Answer: 

We need a better accessibility of category research.

 Definitely.

Now, let's see what salutes us after opening the dash. 

Something like on the picture below/above/aside 

(similar in Oneiric, this is a Natty screenshot). 

After having been using Unity for half a year now I can look back saying that 

I have actually never used any of these links. The preferred applications

 in the second row should most likely already be in the launcher 

(at least on my system they are, just look at the 

launcher at the left margin of the screenshot).

 The links to the applications and the documents lense 

(the two links at the right hand side of the first row) 

can be found elsewhere, too. 

So, they're not necessary neither. The only links I possibly use sometimes 

are the links to the multimedia and Internet application categories.

So, why don't we leave out those links nobody needs at all from the "dash start page" 

and expand those we need sometimes? You could open the dash 

and find links to all categories

 of programs already on the start page? Doesn't this sound like a good solution?

As a result, 

the dash start page will gain a reason of existence and the category 

research will be much more easily accessible.

See, I'm no interface designer,

 just some random guy that has been using Unity for a longer span of time now.

 If you think, I'm telling complete nonsense, feel free to criticize

 my opinion in the comments at all time.