How to Install Anything in Ubuntu Condensed

This is a very condensed excerpt of the excellent article How to install ANYTHING in Ubuntu.

Search, install, remove available packages

preferred method

sudo aptitude search ABC
sudo aptitude install ABC
sudo aptitude remove ABC

.deb

you have to take care of dependencies on your own

sudo dpkg -i ABC.deb

.rpm

requires sudo aptitude install alien

sudo alien -i *.rpm

.tar.gz

requires sudo aptitude install checkinstall

tar xzvf ABC.tar.gz
cd ABC
./configure
make
sudo checkinstall

.package, .sh, .bin

Just download and execute

chmod +x ABC
./ABC

.exe

requires sudo aptitude install wine

wine ABC.exe