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(Image credit: Future / OpenClipArt / Pexels) Jump to: Installing Discover Using Discover I’ve been using Linux for well over a quarter of a century (oh my god, I am old!), and I’ve used a fair few different means to install and manage software. But most, if not all, of these tools require some level of Linux knowledge or know-how to understand how to use them. In this how-to to I’ll show you how to install Discover on Raspberry Pi OS “Trixie,” which is based on the latest version of Debian. But the process is the same for most Linux distros.
The beginner-friendly Raspberry Pi also has this issue. Sure, it has the means to install recommended software, but if it wasn’t on that list, you had to go digging in the terminal.
Installing software on Linux can be achieved in many different ways, but using Discover is the simplest for beginners.
Discover breaks down software into categories for easier browsing and searching.
Discover can update all the software on your machine and remove applications you no longer use.
Aimed largely at beginners and casual Linux users, Discover is a simple tool that provides all of the features that we expect.
To install Discover, we need to do a little terminal work, which is hypocritical considering the goal of this how-to, but it is the only means available.
1. Open a terminal by clicking on the terminal icon or by pressing CTRL + ALT + T.
2. Using sudo, update the list of software repositories on your machine , using a list from a remote machine.
sudo apt update 3. Install Plasma Discover. The download is around 470MB, so expect the process to take a few minutes. Why is it so large? Because it also has to install a few KDE-specific dependencies in order for it to work.
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