![]() I have perused a few extracted files for different apps recently and not found a single ‘readme’ or ‘exe’ Good luck to you my friend and enjoy Linux! ![]() ![]() Of course, you can brake your system too, that is why it’s important to ALWAYS have a backup before you do anything new! (not recommended, but who cares, what can you lose?) To me, it’s one of the beauty of Linux, you can play with it, try things with it, until it becomes totally yours. Or, you can install everything from your distro’s older version/archive. It will tell you if there are missing dependencies and if you really-really want that package, then keep searching, until you find a website that tells you what are the missing files and how to find them. Here is one of the many results, I searched for “Cairo clock. You can still install older versions of it, it should work just fine, except if they also removed dependencies. I might be wrong, but Cairo clock could be an old project, not maintained anymore so they removed it from depositories. I dont use Ubuntu, what I have said applies to Debian, which is similar to Many times you get better results by searching for a package in google, since you don’t have to know the correct name of it. You dont have to unpack official packages, apt does it for you. How you unpack and install an unofficial package depends on what type ofarchive it is. Unoficial packages can be of various formats, quite commonly archives like tar. Official packages all have a consistent content. I was assuming that the apps you downloaded were unofficial packages - ie you did not use apt to download them. ![]() Top use apt from the command line you just use commands like apt install packagename or apt-search searchitem. Synaptic is just a graphic interface to apt. There are official Ubuntu packages, These can be downloaded automatically using Ubuntu’s package manager, which is called apt. Packages are bundles of software ( mostly binary, but can be source code. I have heard of packages and package managers,
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