Installing your software's

This page will explain how can you install and update/upgrade your software's in Linux

Updating/Upgrading your System

Before installing software's, you want to make sure your system is up to date so that none of the software have trouble finding the correct dependencies needed for the software to run/install/compile. NOTE: Some Distro like Arch Linux encourages you to not partially update/upgrade your system, because there's a likelihood that you'll brick your system by accident.

To update/upgrade your system, you can do it via Terminal/Console

Ubuntu/Debian:

sudo apt update

Fedora:

sudo dnf update

Arch:

sudo pacman -Syu

(Update repo database and update the system)

or

sudo pacman -Sy

(Just update the database)

Installing Software's

To install a software, you can either install it from Terminal (Package Manager, Flatpak) or use GUI store like Discover on KDE (Flatpak)

pacman (Package manager) for Arch Linux

Discover store for installing Flatpak apps

Using Package Manager

To install a package using your package manager, open your Terminal/Console (usually with CTRL+ALT+T), and type the command correspond to the distro you're using:

Ubuntu/Debian:

sudo apt-get install package_name

Fedora:

sudo dnf install package_name

Arch:

sudo pacman -Sy package_name

or

yay -Sy AUR_package_name

Using Flatpak

All distro should have flatpak command installed by default. You can install flatpak apps via Terminal or use GUI Frontend like Discover (example above)

For all distro:

flatpak install flatpak_package_name

Installing Yay (Arch based distro only!)

For Arch based distro, there's something called AUR (Arch User Repository). This is basically a repository made by the community for Arch Linux users. And to install packages that are from AUR, you need one of these AUR helper. Personally I use yay because Yay! why not...

To install yay, open your terminal and do these commands:

pacman -S --needed git base-devel
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git
cd yay
makepkg -si

Drivers

NVIDIA Drivers

If you use NVIDIA GPU, you need to install it's driver. Either from NVIDIA website using .deb package, or via Driver Manager (some distros provides this). Please refer to your distro's manual on how to install your NVIDIA Drivers because each distro has it's own way of installing NVIDIA driver (Arch Linux for example). Or if you don't want the hassle, use Linux distro that comes with NVIDIA driver (example: CachyOS, Pop_OS!, Nobara...)

Driver Manager

AMD Drivers

If you use an AMD GPU, your drivers are already built into the kernel. There's no need to install a driver for it

Software's you may need for VTubing

Each software has it's own page in this wiki to make pages lot more shorter and easy to find. Please use the page navigation on the left hand side