Dr Andrew Scott G7VAV

MBCS, MIET, Member ACM, Member IEEE

Senior Lecturer
School of Computing
and Communications

D35 InfoLab21
Lancaster University
Lancaster, LA1 4WA
United Kingdom

SOFTWARE-CENTER

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 2.1.8
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NAME

software-center - manage software

software-center [options] [ package-name | apt-url | deb-file ]

software-center a graphical interface for package management in Ubuntu.

Listed below are the command line options for software-center:

software-center: Display the main screen of software-center.
software-center gedit: Display the details view of the gedit package.
software-center banshee?section=universe: Display the details view of the banshee package and offer to enable the universe component.
software-center adobe-flashplugin?channel=maverick-partner: Display the details view of the adobe-flashplugin package and offer to enable the maverick-partner channel.
software-center cheese,gtg: Display a list containing the cheese and gtg packages.
software-center /home/pgg/skype.deb: Display the details view of the local debian file '/home/pgg/skype.deb'.

software-center was written by Michael Vogt <mvo@canonical.com>, and this manual page by Andrew Higginson <rugby471@gmail.com>.

Both are released under the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later.

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Andrew Scott