FreshUbuntu

For those of you new to Ubuntu linux and wondering about how to install new apps and perhaps wondering what a package is and why it may need to be managed.  Prepare to be amazed and a little befuddled.  You have now just entered the land of a thousand choices.  In the linux world, packages are what might have been called applications in the Microsoft world that most folks live in.  Installing new applications is no simple task as it requires downloading dependencies which are not usually bundled with the actual program much like a DLL in windows.  Sorry if I lost you there :)  So it stands to reason that one would need a package manager.  Here is a website called Appnr.com that I think might help in a couple of areas for the new user. 
 

Those areas are, which packages to choose and how to install them without breaking a lot of things.  I mainly like this site for how easy it is to decide which packages are the most popular and of course no one can beat 1-click installation.  As you can see by the photo you can arrange entries by name or by popularity.
 

You can choose from a number of different categories and even drill down to more specificity by clicking on the icon that represents which desktop environment you are using, though you are only limited to Gnome, KDE or XFCE.  Still if you are on Ubuntu chances are you are using one of those 3.  Installation is fairly simple, just click on the install icon on the right side of the page correspodning to which package you want  installed and it will install this for you automagically.
 
 
All one has to do is choose a category and perhaps sort by popularity and click.  It's that easy.  One thing to make sure you do have installed is apturl.  Take a deep breath and open up your terminal and enter this without the qoutes "sudo apt-get install apturl" you should be up and running in no time.