When your installation is complete, the application
waits for you to use it by browsing to the application title in your K menu.
One of the truly handy, proprietary applications available in the CNR Warehouse is
Win4Lin, which can be used to get many Win32 applications up and running on your
Linspire system.
Other Installation Options
While the Click-N-Run application is the quickest means of managing software on your Linspire
installation, it may not meet every user??™s needs. With this in mind, here are a couple of other
options for managing software on your Linspire installation:
.DEB packages can be used to manually install software. Open a Terminal window and
run the command 'dpkg - i filename.deb'.
For more information on using the dpkg installation utility, check out the related Debian
FAQ at http://debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-pkgtools.en.html.
RPM packages can be used if you make use of an installation package converter such as
Alien (www.kitenet.net/programs/alien/). This method should be employed only
if you have no other convenient options. Package conversion is not a sure thing, and
unexpected consequences can arise from using converted packages.
As mentioned, apt-get can be used to install .DEB packages over the network.
See Chapter 9 for a thorough description of Debian's apt-get utility and related software
management tools.
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