These are few basic things you should know in order to proceed. It is recommended that you by-heart these commands, since it might be a bit tedious to come back to this page each time the article demands you to "install a package" or "unpack a .tar.gz file".

You can unpack tar.gz files using the command:tar xfvz package_name

For example:tar xfvz omnetpp-4.1-src.tar.gz

Normally, the files will be extracted to the current working directory of terminal.

• In terminal, if you press "Tab" key, they will try auto complete the command/filename/folder name you have half typed. In case there are more than one match, when you hit Tab key for the second time, all possible cases will be listed.

Note:

• Distro - distribution
• Repo - repository

Installation of packages are distro specific- it involves two steps,

1. Updating your package list: You don't have to do this more often. Once in a week is more than enough.
2. Selecting and installing the required packages: Make sure you have active Internet connection while you're doing this.

Here is how-to for few common distros:

The steps will be same for distros like Ubuntu, LMDE, Linux Mint, etc. which areDebian based.Read this in case you need more help or to know the graphical way for doing it. It's recommended that you to go for terminal because click selecting each package in GUI is a tedious job.

1. Update your package list:sudo apt-get update
2. Attachsudo apt-get install before list of packages you want to install and run it in terminal. For example, to install "ant" and "openjdk6", run:sudo apt-get install ant openjdk6
3. Searching for right package name:Usesudo apt-cache search package_name to search if the package is available in repo.

1. Updating your package list:sudo pacman -Syu
2. Attachsudo pacman -S before list of packages you want to install and run it in terminal. For example, to install "ant" and "openjdk6", run:sudo pacman -S ant openjdk6
3. Searching for right package name:Usesudo pacman -Ss <package name> to search if the package is available in repo.

Steps will be similar for allArch based distros.Read this in case you need more help.

See this link for allRPM based distros.

Most of the popular GNU/Linux Distros fall under one of these three main branches. In other cases, just try your luck with Google.

Now you can proceed to the next chapter.

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