Installing unsupported applications

This is actually the second part of Brad Linder's tutorial as posted in Download Squad. It is also the second tutorial on installing program in this blog. The first, Installing Programs on the Asus Eee PC, was posted earlier.

There are three ways to install applications on the Eee PC.

1. You can use the apt-get command in a terminal window.
   
2. You can download, uncompress, and install applications manually using a terminal. But it's not user friendly at all.
3. You can use the Synaptic package manager which is a graphical interface for apt-get.
   

Brad's tutorial covers the last one, which is actually the recommended method. But before you use the Synaptic package manager you need to enable Full Desktop Mode. (See previous post, Enabling Full Desktop Mode in Asus Eee PC.)

With theSynaptic package manager will see a list of installed applications and a few uninstalled but available ones. You can also add repositories to gain access to other applications, though not all will be be compatible or may require more powerful configurations.

At any rate, just knowing and having access to more software will always come in handy, so check out the complete tutorial here.

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Additional information regarding Xandros (and Debian) repositories is available at the Eeeuser forum. It is highly recommended that readers read the entire Eeeuser article to familiarize themselves with what is compatible and what is not.