how to use command promt in ubuntu

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kittysacattack

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I see to install some softare, there is bunch of commands. How do i know if its several commands or one long one. What do i do, write the line, then press enter? Then it asks for my password, but i can no longer type anything?
 
yes most times you will need to authenticate as root to install programs.
the command is :
sudo apt-get install program
 
kittysacattack said:
wget http://ftp.yi.se/pub/software/videolan/libdvdcss/1.2.8/deb/libdvdcss2_1.2.8-1_i386.deb -c
wget http://ftp.yi.se/pub/software/videolan/libdvdcss/1.2.8/deb/libdvdcss2-dev_1.2.8-1_i386.deb -c
sudo dpkg -i *.deb

it later says sudo enter passord michael
but it wont let me type anything
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geez man, this is just a deb file, am pretty sure you downloaded it onto your desktop.
now in termial just use the cd command and move to your desktop.
from there do :
dpkg -i libdvdcss2-dev_1.2.8-1_i386.deb

the file name is too long just rename it to libdvdcss
 
all i really want to do is install libdvdcss any way i can. Ive been working on this for 5 hours, asking questions and looking around, and nothing makes sense to me. I just saw someone said to install the program that way. I downloaded it also ,but dont know how to install it.
 
kittysacattack said:
all i really want to do is install libdvdcss any way i can. Ive been working on this for 5 hours, asking questions and looking around, and nothing makes sense to me. I just saw someone said to install the program that way. I downloaded it also ,but dont know how to install it.
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so it's on your desktop then ? right-click on it, in the right-click menu there's bound to be an "install" command !!
 
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