The Places menu keeps track of places you want to go, lets you connect to remote servers,
and lets you see (and, if you like, connect to) recently opened documents. There is also
an option available to search your system for files.
The System menu provides selections for changing desktop preferences and doing
system administration tasks.
The Administration menu is where you go to select languages, set up your printer,
manage disks, and add users or groups.
Adding More Software
While Ubuntu manages to install around 2GB of applications from a single Ubuntu CD, it??™s still
only 2GB. By contrast, other implementations with multiple CDs in a set can install up to about
7GB of applications. To add more software to Ubuntu, you can use the common Debian packaging
tools (apt-get, aptitude, and even dpkg). You can also use the Synaptic Package Manager for adding
and removing software packages, which provides a friendly graphical interface, a handy Search
function to help you find packages, and many other usability improvements over the commandline
tools.
To open the Synaptic Package Manager window, select System???Administration???Synaptic Package
Manager. Figure 17-5 shows the Synaptic Package Manager window.
Using Synaptic Package Manager, you can install more software by selecting the Not Installed entry
in the next column, and then selecting the package you want to install on the left.
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