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on Install button. You are done. Or, alternatively, click on the one you want to uninstall, and click Remove. A breeze! By the way, you may also select the group that you think your program is in, and the program will also list out all software in that list for you to search. However, you may get something more historic. It is called "Pirut". It will ask for your root password. Don't worry, this is one-time business, and Pirut will not nag you about agreement. Once you have entered the password (the one you entered while installing, before creating any user), it will present itself. Pirut has three buttons on the left. It is a good idea to stay away from List button. It will try to list all available programs you may install/remove. You know, you have several thousands of them. Click on it, and your machine will freeze. You may click on Search to search for a specific program, using name and description phrase (like google). You may click on browse to go through programs by groups (recommended). Find what you want? Check (install) / uncheck (remove) the tick box next to it, and click OK or Yes or Continue on some following boxes (it reports! Not nagging, again). Done. Again, a breeze. If you use Ubuntu, you will have something else: Synaptic Package Manager. Again, easy and self-explanation enough, you click search to search, and tick/untick to install/ uninstall. Oh, you can always ask around the forums for help!

One point I want to stress: the package name is not always the software's name. For example, you may want to install fglrx. There is no single fglrx package. Just punch in the word, and read the description of stuffs the program find for you, try to find the one that fits the best.

Now, sometimes you may want to install something that is not on the list. This is more advanced and I recommend you not to try out before getting comfortable with Linux. If you do find something you want out of the list, ask for help from the forum first. Then go and do what I will tell you.

First, you go to the website of your program and download the source code. Try to get something stable. Unstable releases may not even compile. Download it. Open the file manager. Go to the place where you throw the source code. You may want to create a separate directory for the program, and copy the compressed source code into the new directory. You may not. Anyway, the source code compressed file (usually called tarball) will have the following expression for name: programname-version.filetype.

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