UBUNTUSTUDIO-INSTALLER(1)

✨ UBUNTUSTUDIO-INSTALLER(1) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the ubuntustudio-installer manual page — yes it lives in the General Commands Manual section, and it's genuinely one of the cutest little helpers out there. Let's get into it 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

ubuntustudio-installer — literally just: pick which packages you wanna install, but from the command line. that's the whole vibe 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

ubuntustudio-installer [ package ] [ package ] ...

so you just hand it a bunch of packages, as many as you want, one after another. no cap 🫶

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so here's the tea, bestie. ubuntustudio-installer is a program that takes a list of packages on the command line and then serves you up a GUI list of those packages, with descriptions, so you get to choose which ones you actually want. it's giving "menu of dreams" ✨

and like — only the packages that are included in the PPAs the machine already knows about will show up. so if it's not there, it's not there, no cap. the description you see comes straight from the package's control file. that's where the words come from. iconic behaviour, honestly.

the way this program is meant to be used is: it gets run from an XDG desktop file. that way a distribution can add an install selection into a sub-menu that actually makes sense for that category. so it slots right into your menu like it was always meant to be there 🧚

and fun fact — ubuntustudio-installer is shipped with a menu item that will offer to install workflow software groups ( meta-packages ) from the UbuntuStudio flavour. so you can just... get the whole studio setup. obsessed 💜

😭 BUGS 😭

ngl, it could look prettier.

that's it. that's the bug. 💀

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Len Ovens <len at ubuntustudio dot org>

and that's a wrap on the ubuntustudio-installer manual page, bestie — the one from the General Commands Manual, dated JULY 2013, matching the UBUNTUSTUDIO-INSTALLER(1) page you'd find in the wild. go pick some packages, you're the main character of your own install 💖✨🎀