
I’m going to use the installation of the program SmartSynchronize (a file comparison utility) as an example. I’m running Ubuntu 14.04 right now, and here is the easiest way to “install” those kinds of programs without having to manually edit config files or run tons of commands. This can be annoying, and some of us want to create a launcher icon so that we can search for it in the dashboard or add it to the sidebar. Other times programs come as a folder with a shell script *.sh inside that you are supposed to run through the command line. Sometimes programs you want to install in Linux come as nicely packaged deb files, making them easy to install. Sudo mv ~/Desktop/sktop /usr/share/applications/ Full Version Gnome-desktop-item-edit ~/Desktop/ -create-new


Creating Launcher Icons in Ubuntu (14.04) TLDR sudo apt-get install -no-install-recommends gnome-panel
