Our Raspberry Pi has lots of applications already installed (Minecraft, Mathematica, and the browser), so how are we going to check it?
We can used command in a terminal window:
dpkg --get-selections
You will get the lists of APT Software installed.
There are two ways to install software/applications/packages.
- Via command line : sudo apt-get ….
- Via GUI software which is ‘synaptic’
In this page, I will shows on how to install ‘synaptic.
Step 1: Open a terminal window and type the command:
sudo apt-get install synaptic
Answer ‘yes’. Synaptic is will be installed in Preferences menu of STARTx:
Step 2: Open the synaptic from Preference menu.
You will be prompted for a password as Synaptic needs to run as the ‘root’ user ‘pi’. The default password is usually ‘raspberry’:
You will see all the software/applications/packages installed in your raspberry pi.
You can update or uninstalled by tick mark on the box.
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