Different ways of installing programs

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I noticed that there are at least 3 ways of installing programs.

  1. apt install
  2. Snaps
  3. flatpaks

Methods 2 and 3 present problems with using --help.

which does not work with flatpaks to see where a program is, so I just do a search for the particular program.

It can get tedious.

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You missed out Appimages fixit

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What about .deb packages? And there’s also building from source, which is the raddest thing there is!:slight_smile:

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@fixit7 Your questions already have comprehensive answers on AskUbuntu.

If you need GUI for Snaps, FlatPaks and APT on 18.04 LTS then you can use Plasma Discover from KDE:

sudo apt-get install plasma-discover \
plasma-discover-flatpak-backend plasma-discover-snap-backend \
qml-module-qtquick-controls qml-module-qtquick-dialogs kdelibs5-plugins

Plasma Discovery on Ubuntu MATE 18.04 LTS

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