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2.Click the plus next to New Applications to expand that section of themenu. 3.Browse through the categories. 4.When you find a program you want to install, click the Install Productlink next to it. The Install Software dialog box appears. 5.Click OK in the dialog box to download and install the program. You may be asked to enter your root (Administrator s) password. Then, the software is downloaded and added to your machine. No muss, nofuss! When the update is complete, the Updating System dialog boxstays open. 6.Click Close to close the Updating System dialog box. 7.If you want to add more software, return to Step 3. If you re finished, choose File.Quit. Adding the software in this bookMany of the programs discussed in this book are either already installed(such as the Flash and Java plugins) or aren t offered through XandrosNetworks. You can find Kmail by choosing Internet.KDE Mail in the NewApplications section. To add more software to your system, see the section Finding More Software. Finding More SoftwareWhat if you can t find what you re looking for through the official (and not soofficial) sources discussed in the previous section? Those aren t your onlyoptions. While I can t anticipate every situation you might find yourself in, Ican at least give you some tips for how to find extra software and how toinstall much of it. The general steps for finding new software involve1.Find out what you want by opening your favorite Web search engineand searching on a feature and the word linux. For example, maybe you want something comparable to the programirfanview from the Windows world, so you would search on irfanviewlinux. 2.Sort through the search results and see whether a particular programis suggested. If not, then add the word equivalentto your search andsearch again. 261Chapter 12: Adding Software to Linux18_

6.For the programs you want to install, click the box next to the item toadd a checkmark. 7.Continue searching and selecting software. 8.When you re ready to proceed, click Accept. If there are no dependencies, then the installation begins. If other pro- grams need to be added in order to satisfy dependencies, the ChangedPackages dialog box appears. Click Continue to accept these additionalpackages. 9.Insert the appropriate CDs as they re requested. After everything is installed, SuSE rebuilds the necessary configurationfiles, and then the software installation tool closes. Prefer to use the DVDs? When you first enter YaST, choose Software .ChangeSource Of Installation. In the Software Source Media dialog box, choose Add. DVD to add the DVDs to the list. Then select the DVD entry in the listing andclick Up so that it s in the list before the CDs. Click Finish, and you re ready tomove on! After you ve added the software, because you re adding it from the installa- tion media, you will probably want to update your system so that you get thelatest versions of what you just added. Adding the software in this bookTo add the various programs discussed in this book, open up the YaST soft- ware management tool as discussed in the previous section, and then, in theFilter drop-down list box, choose Package Groups. Now you can see on theleft a list of all the major package groups; and on the right are the contents ofthe selected group. You can find the programs you re looking for in the fol- lowing Package Groups locations: Macromedia Flash plug-in:Choose Productivity.Networking.Web. Browsers.flash-player. Java support:Development.Languages.Java.java2-j2re. Firefox:Productivity.Networking.Web.Browsers.MozillaFirefox. Xipping with Xandros NetworksJust as Linspire users can use the CNR Warehouse to add software, Xandrosusers can use Xandros Networks. To add software using this tool: 1.Double-click the Xandros Networks icon on your desktop. The Xandros Networks dialog box opens. 260Part III:Getting Up to Speed with Linux

don t want to see any of you go bald (or more bald than you already are!) So, here s how you use it. As with most SuSE administration functions, start by choosing System.YaSTto pull up the SuSE administration tool. From there: 1.Choose Software.Install And Remove Software. The software management dialog box appears, as shown in Figure 12-16.2.Under Search in, click Description to make sure that you re searchingin program descriptions for your keywords. 3.Enter your keyword in the Search text box. For example, maybe you want to see what SuSE offers involving thequicktimemovie format. 4.Click Search. A progress bar probably appears to let you know that SuSE is searchingthrough all the program names and descriptions. When the search iscomplete, a list of possibilities appears in the top right of the dialog box. 5.Click a program to learn more about it. More information appears on the lower right portion of the window. Figure 12-16: The SuSEYaSTsoftwaremanage- ment dialogbox. 259Chapter 12: Adding Software to Linux18_

6.When you re ready to add all the software you ve selected, clickInstall. If some of the software comes from your Mandrake CDs, you re asked toinsert the appropriate CD when it s needed. 7.Once you re finished, click Quit. Adding the software in this bookTo add the particular programs discussed in this book, add the followingpackages using the Installation Manager: Firefox:mozilla-firefox (search on mozilla) Thunderbird:mozilla-thunderbird (search on mozilla) Flash plugin:swfdec-mozilla (search on mozilla) For RealPlayer and browser support for Java, however, see the Fedora sec- tion for how to add these items by hand. Sassing with SuSESuSE s boxed sets come with an amazing amount of software. Just navigatingthe maze of what s included can be enough to make you tear your hair out ifyou don t know how to use the software management tools. Don t worry. IFigure 12-15: The Mandrake 10.1SoftwarePackagesInstallationdialog box. 258Part III:Getting Up to Speed with Linux

4.In the Name text box, enter a short but descriptive name for thisrepository. Typically, I stick with the short name shown in the listing, such as plfinthe case of the example. 5.In the URL text box, enter the URL you got from the Web site. For example, type ftp://ftp.cica.es/mirrors/Linux/plf/ mandrake/10.1.6.Click the Relative path to synthesis/hdlist box. 7.Add the text that appears on the Web site s output for this entry, afterthe word with. Given the preceding example, I would add hdlist.cz. 8.Click OK. The tool downloads pertinent information from the site you just added. 9.If you want to add more repositories, return to Step 1. Otherwise, click OK to close the tool. Installing software in MandrakeAfter you ve added your repositories (by following the instructions in theprevious section), you can start adding new software using the Mandrake GUItools. To do so: 1.Choose System.Configuration.Packaging.Install Software. The Software Packages Installation dialog box appears (see Figure 12-15). 2.Type a keyword into the text box next to Find. For example, you might type mp3.3.Click Search. The tool now searches through all the package descriptions and dis- plays a list of those that contain the keyword. 4.In the package listing, select a package you think you might be inter- ested in. More information about that package appears to the right. 5.If you want to add the program, click in its box to add a check. If it turns out that the program you select needs other programs, adialog box pops up notifying you that they ll be added as well. Click OKto proceed if this happens. Then, return to Step 2 if you want to look formore programs. 257Chapter 12: Adding Software to Linux18_

Packaging.Software Media Manager (see Figure 12-13) and then do the following: 1.Click Add. The Add A Medium dialog box, shown in Figure 12-14, appears. 2.Look at the beginning of the URL you were given to determine what itstarts with. For example, if you see the line: urpmi.addmedia plf ftp://ftp.cica.es/mirrors/Linux/ plf/mandrake/10.1 with hdlist.cz you re interested in the ftp://part. In this case, it s an FTP URL; youcan tell by the :// bit. 3.Select the appropriate radio button along the top. Following the example, I would select FTP server. Figure 12-14: The Mandrake 10.1SoftwareMediaManager sAdd AMediumdialog box. Figure 12-13: The Mandrake 10.1SoftwareMediaManager. 256Part III:Getting Up to Speed with Linux

To add Firefox or Thunderbird, go to www.mozilla.organd follow theinstructions there. Making it happen with MandrakeIf you read the Fedora section earlier in this chapter, you re familiar with theidea of finding software repositoriesthat contain handy prepackaged softwarejust waiting to be added to your computer. Such repositories also exist forMandrake, adding to this distribution s ease of use. First, you must locatethese repositories, add them to your system so that it knows where to look, and then finally you can dig around for whatever software you re interested in. Finding Mandrake repositoriesTo add repositories to Mandrake, you need to locate those that interest youmost: 1.Point your Web browser to http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/. 2.In section one, in the Version drop-down list box, choose 10.1 Official. 3.In Architecture, choose i586.4.Click Proceed to Step 2. You advance to the second portion of the Web page. 5.Under Core Distribution, check the box labeled Source Contrib. Then, in its corresponding drop-down list box, choose the location closest to you. 6.In part 3, decide whether to check the box under External Add-Ons. See the legal concerns section in Chapter 18 to help you determinewhether to check the box under External Add-Ons. If you check this box, then choose a download location to use along with it. (You won t be ableto find one in North America.) 7.If you do a lot of stuff in Java, then go under Other Sources, check thefirst box, and select the location for jpackage (www.jpackage.org) downloads. 8.Click Proceed to Step 3. Rather than typing the stuff listed in Step 3 at the command line, you re goingto enter it into the GUI. Proceed to the next section to find out how. (However, you are welcome to just type the items as described on the page, if that s whatyou want to do.) Adding Mandrake repositories to your systemAfter you have the list of repositories you want to add open in your browser(see the previous section for how to do so), choose System.Configuration. 255Chapter 12: Adding Software to Linux18_

Believe it or not, that s it. If you followed these instructions, you probablyjust installed a program! Of course, if you chose something that you have topurchase, there s a bit more involved, but it s not bad. You can also actually add things using the Programs menu and its submenus. If you know, for example, that you re looking for a Multimedia application, choose Programs.Multimedia & Design.CNR More. Then, you can justselect the application that you want to add to open the CNR tool directly tothat program s page and then click the CNR button to install it. Adding the software in this bookYou can add most software for Linspire through the CNR Warehouse. To findthe packages discussed in this book and add them, open your CNR client, click the CNR Membership Services tab, and look in the following CNRWarehouse sections: Macromedia Flash support:Choose Multimedia & Design.Animation. Flash 7 Plug-In. Java support:Choose Internet.Browsers.Java (IBM). Ximian Evolution:Choose Internet.Email.Ximian Evolution. Kmail: Choose Internet.Email.Kmail. Figure 12-12: The CNRlisting forJava (IBM). 254Part III:Getting Up to Speed with Linux

8.Type your root password and click OK. The Completed System Preparation dialog box appears. 9.Click Continue to install the program. Once this process is complete, RealPlayer 10 appears in the Sound & Video menu. Clicking and running with LinspirePlaying with Linspire s CNR Warehouse can be a lot of fun. To add new soft- ware with CNR, do the following: 1.Double-click the CNR icon on the bottom left of your desktop or tosingle-click the one on left of your panel. These two icons look identical; they re running men on a green back- ground. When you activate it, the CNR-Client dialog box appears, asshown earlier in this chapter (see Figure 12-5). 2.Look on the left for the section labeled CNR Warehouse. 3.Click the + next to it, if you see one, to expand this menu. The contents of the Warehouse appear, if they were hidden. 4.Browse! Browsing is the fun part! CNR actually allows you to download free soft- ware and to access commercial (pay for) software in the same interface, making it easy to install, which is pretty cool. So, find something youwant to add. 5.Once you ve located a program you want to add, the listing lookssomething like what s shown in Figure 12-12.6.Install the program or read more about it. What you do in this step depends on how much you know about the program: If you know you want to install this program immediately, click thegreen running man icon to add this software with just one click. If you want to know more about this program, click the blue Ibutton to access an information page. From there, you can clickthe CNR button to add the program or click Back to change yourmind and not install it. What s this Aisle stuff you re seeing? You can create Aisles to group similarprograms together in a menu and then let other Linspire users access them. 253Chapter 12: Adding Software to Linux18_

7.Under Owner, select Execute and then click Close. This file can now be run as a program. 8.Right-click on your desktop and select Open Terminal. A terminal window appears. 9.The file similar to j2re-1_4_2_05-linux-i586-rpm.bin should be in yourdefault directory; type lsto make sure. 10.Type ./j2re-1_4_2_05-linux-i586-rpm.binto start the extractionprocess. You get Sun s Java license, or at least part of it. You may at some pointalso be asked for your root (administrative) password. Enter it whenasked and click OK. 11.At each screen that ends with MORE, press the space bar to proceed. You eventually reach the text Do You Agree To The Above License Terms? 12.Type yesand press Enter to proceed. A file similar to j2re-1.4.2-05.i586.rpm now appears in the directory. 13.In your file browser, double-click the j2re RPM file. The RPM is installed for you. You now have Java support. Another item you may want to add support for is RealPlayer, which gives youMP3 support and can handle lots of different multimedia formats. To add thissoftware: 1.Point your Web browser to www.real.com/linux. You see Real s Linux page. 2.Click the Download RPM link beneath the big Download RealPlayerbutton. The Opening RealPlayer dialog box appears. 3.Make sure that the Save To Disk option is selected. 4.Click OK to download the file. The Download Manager dialog box appears. It s safe to close yourbrowser now or to browse to another site. Once the download has fin- ished, you can close this dialog box, too. 5.Double-click your home directory icon on the desktop to open yourfile browser. 6.Navigate to the folder where you saved the file. 7.Double-click the RealPlayer RPM. You re asked for your root password. 252Part III:Getting Up to Speed with Linux