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How does one discover which command to run to install a piece of software?



For example, if I wanted to know the command to run to install VirtualBox, how do I know that I should run sudo apt-get install virtualbox-4.2, and not sudo apt-get install XYZ?


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When you don't want to use the search field in the Ubuntu Software Center you can search the packages via apt with this command: sudo apt-cache search virtualbox



You will get a list of found packages and now you can install it by typing the right package i.e. sudo apt-get install virtualbox-4.2


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