How to download programs for Linux

Linux distributions often come with a wide variety of programs which may be installed via the program manager. When selected, the software is downloaded with all of it’s required dependencies.

Graphic Interface

For major releases like Fedora and Ubuntu, click “add / remove programs” and select which packages you would like the machine to download and install for them you.

Example: Add/Remove Programs gui on Fedora, vsftpd

Command Line

To automatically download and install a program via command line, you can use “Yum” and “apt-get”.

With fedora, type “yum install program_name” and your program will be installed. Ubuntu employs apt-get for this “apt-get program_name”

Example: Yum install vsftpd

To figure out what a program is called so that you can install it, go to google and type in “yum install program_name”. People will have written about it, so you can copy and paste the line into your shell console: