Help installing programs for Ubuntu 7.10

[Imperial_Onyx]

I am totally new on Ubuntu.
Cans some teach or give me any tutorial how to install useful programs such as Open Office, VLC, and yahoo messenger.
I want to install these programs but i dont have any idea how to.

[iaculallad]

I am totally new on Ubuntu.
Cans some teach or give me any tutorial how to install useful programs such as Open Office, VLC, and yahoo messenger.
I want to install these programs but i dont have any idea how to.

NOTE: Issue the terminal commands below one-at-a-time

For OpenOffice:


sudo apt-get install openoffice.org

For VLC:


sudo apt-get install libdvdread3
sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh
sudo apt-get install vlc

For Yahoo Messenger:


Use the default application installed: PIDGIN

[Partyboi2]

Here (http://monkeyblog.org/ubuntu/installing/) is a small guide to installing programs.

[abn91c]

check all you menu's first before installing, open office is installed by default on ubuntu 8.04

[H3lp3r]

I can not find PIDGIN

[Partyboi2]

I can not find PIDGIN
If you are trying to install pidgin open a terminal (Applications>Accessories>Terminal) and type

sudo apt-get install pidgin