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You can find software by category or by searching, and you can install an item with the click of a button.

To install something with Ubuntu Software Center, you need administrator access and a working Internet connection. (If you set up Ubuntu on this computer yourself, you have administrator access automatically.)

In the <guilabel>Get Software</guilabel> section, find the thing you want to install. If you already know its name, try typing the name in the search field. Or try searching for the type of program you want (like &#8220;spreadsheet&#8221;). Otherwise, browse the list of departments.

Select the item in the list, and choose <guilabel>More Info</guilabel>.

Some items, such as media playback or Web browser plugins, do not appear in the menus. They are used automatically when Ubuntu needs them. For a Web browser plugin, you may need to close the browser and reopen it before the plugin will be used.

In the <guilabel>Installed Software</guilabel> section, find the item you want to remove.

Select the item in the list, and choose <guilabel>Remove</guilabel>. You may need to enter your Ubuntu password.

If a program is open when you remove it, usually it will stay open even after it is removed. As soon as you close it, it will no longer be available.

Why is it asking me to remove several programs together?

Multiple applications are sometimes provided as a single package. If any of them are installed, all of them are installed. And if any of them are removed, all of them are removed. Ubuntu Software Center cannot remove them individually, because it has no instructions on how to separate them.

You can use the <guilabel>Main Menu</guilabel> settings to hide unwanted items without removing them from the computer. In Ubuntu, you can find <guilabel>Main Menu</guilabel> inside <menuchoice><guimenu>System</guimenu> <guisubmenu>Preferences</guisubmenu></menuchoice>. In Ubuntu Netbook Edition, it is in <menuchoice><guimenu>Settings</guimenu> <guisubmenu>Preferences</guisubmenu></menuchoice>.

<ulink url="ghelp:user-guide?menu-editor" >Customizing the menu bar</ulink>

What is &#8220;Canonical-maintained&#8221;?

Other software is maintained by the Ubuntu developer community. Any updates are provided on a best-effort basis.

What is &#8220;Canonical Partners&#8221;?

<guilabel>Canonical Partners</guilabel> shows software from vendors who have worked with Canonical to make their software available for Ubuntu.

If the software you want still isn&#8217;t there, but you know that it runs on Ubuntu, try contacting the original developers of the program to ask if they can help make it available.

If a program is available for other operating systems but not for Ubuntu, let the developers know that you&#8217;re interested in running it on Ubuntu.

With tens of thousands of programs in Ubuntu Software Center, there&#8217;s always the chance that a few of them won&#8217;t work properly on your computer.

If you are familiar with reporting bugs in software, you can help out by reporting the problem to the Ubuntu developers. Most programs have a <guimenuitem>Report a Problem</guimenuitem> item in their <guimenu>Help</guimenu> menu.

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