New @ Ubuntu

[jerrardm09]

Hi, I am new at Ubuntu and I was interested in learning this new operating system. Any good documentation about the different commands and how to install software on here? Any information would be helpful, thanks.

[Partyboi2]

Hi, welcome to the forums. Here are a couple of useful links
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallingSoftware

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingTheTerminal
http://www.tuxfiles.org/

http://www.ubuntupocketguide.com/download_main.html

[kostkon]

Another good how-to on how to install software is here (http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/installingsoftware).

[jerrardm09]

What's the best way to install a tar file?

[jerrardm09]

Trying to install AIM, but I got this error:

aim: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory


dpkg: error processing aim_1.5.286-2_i386.deb (--install):
cannot access archive: No such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
aim_1.5.286-2_i386.deb