Installing software
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Hi peeps

I just bought a Pinebook as a Christmas gift for my 8 year old daughter Eliza...

My idea is that I wanted her to learn how to use a computer properly. Rather than just scrolling around on an Ipad. I am hoping I made a good choice!  Tongue

I'm not a Linux expert, but I have dabbled with various distros other the last 20 years so I know enough to get around.

I want to ask a question about installing new software on the laptop...

First off, there seems to be no software available in the "Software Boutique". I thought this could be easily remedied by adding the address of a repository to the software sources, but that doesn't seem to work. Am I missing something?

So we went about our first project to install ZSNES (Snes emulator) so we could play Mario, but we are not having much luck there either. We managed to get the binaries installed with apt-get but after trying to run the executable it does not run. I have a feeling this is because it's because it was an i386 package and this laptop needs either something for 64 bit or ARM specifically.

Could somebody please clarify this point. Do I need ARM specific binaries for every program??

Would this be easier if I install a new distro?

I am happy to do some command line stuff with my daughter (thats why I bought the thing after all) but having to manually compile every single app might be a step too far...

I'd appreciate some guidance here. I feel like I must be missing something. The universe of open source software doesn't seem to be readily available to us right now...

Thanks

Chris


Messages In This Thread
Installing software - by cmh2010 - 01-24-2018, 02:56 AM
RE: Installing software - by xalius - 01-24-2018, 04:55 AM
RE: Installing software - by Luke - 01-24-2018, 05:36 AM
RE: Installing software - by cmh2010 - 01-25-2018, 03:02 AM
RE: Installing software - by Luke - 01-25-2018, 05:22 AM
RE: Installing software - by markcuban56 - 05-30-2019, 02:54 AM

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