Difference between revisions of "Additional Software"

Revision as of 22:08, 3 February 2016

GalliumOS comes with a good selection of desktop and utility software, but there is a huge variety of additional options and alternatives.

GalliumOS can install any software packages built for Ubuntu, directly from the Canonical package servers.

There are also some frequently-requested applications that are not available from Canonical, or are more complicated to install. A few are listed here. Please add more!

Desktop Misc

Google Chrome

curl -O https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub
sudo apt-key add linux_signing_key.pub
sudo add-apt-repository -y "deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable

Google Drive integration

Skype

Wine

Wine has been a source of frustration. We're working on reliable and repeatable instructions, the essentials of which will be:

• Enable i386 libraries: sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
• Add the proper PPA package source: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
• Update package lists: sudo apt-get update
• Install Wine: sudo apt-get install wine1.8

Try it, it might work! Sometimes it doesn't though. Requires more testing.

Simple Screen Recorder

sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:maarten-baert/simplescreenrecorder
sudo apt_get_update
sudo apt_get_install simplescreenrecorder

Games

Steam

curl -O http://repo.steampowered.com/steam/archive/precise/steam_latest.deb
sudo dpkg -i steam_latest.deb

Then launch Steam from the application launcher. Your user must be in the "sudo" group (if it is not, the dpkg command above will also fail), so that the installer can do all the things it needs to do.

Minecraft

sudo bash
apt_get_install default-jre
curl -o /usr/local/bin/Minecraft.jar https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/Minecraft.jar
curl -o /usr/share/pixmaps/minecraft.png https://chrx.org/minecraft.png
mkdir -p /usr/local/share/applications
cat > /usr/local/share/applications/minecraft.desktop <<EOF
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Minecraft
Comment=Minecraft
Exec=java -jar /usr/local/bin/Minecraft.jar
Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/minecraft.png
Categories=Game;
EOF

Utilities

Hardware temperature monitor