On 11/5/24 12:21, Gregory Forster wrote:

How do I get another repository for more apps? Or, how do
I get certain apps, such as: Bible Time, KeePass, VLC Media Player, Audacity?

I have three out of those four, but I forget whence they came. Probably
from either backports:
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm-backports contrib main non-free non-free-firmware
(that should be one line)

or deb-multimedia:
deb https://www.deb-multimedia.org bookworm main non-free

Put those either in /etc/apt/sources.list or in a file ending in ".list" in /etc/apt/sources.list.d.

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On 5 Nov 2024 11:21 -0600, from [email protected] (Gregory Forster):

How do I get another repository for more apps?

You should avoid third-party repositories if possible, especially if
you are new to Debian. It's _very_ easy to end up with what is
colloquially known as a FrankenDebian. https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian#Don.27t_make_a_FrankenDebian

(I do recommend reading that whole page, not just the FrankenDebian
section.)

Or, how do  I get certain apps, such as: Bible Time, KeePass, VLC
Media Player, Audacity?

All of those are shipped in the official Debian repository's "main"
component, which means that you already have everything you need to
install them.

In a terminal, you can run:

$ sudo apt-get install bibletime keepass2 vlc audacity

though I strongly suggest installing KeepassXC in place of Keepass, in
which case you should instead use:

$ sudo apt-get install bibletime keepassxc vlc audacity

Once installed they will be kept up to date just like any other
package shipped by Debian.

You can use https://packages.debian.org or `apt-cache search
<keyword>` to find the package name corresponding to a piece of
software you want to install; and `apt-cache show <packagename>` to
see more details about a specific package.

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On Tue, 5 Nov 2024 11:21:25 -0600
Gregory Forster <[email protected]> wrote:

However, there is one question I
have regarding Debian. How do I get another repository for more apps?
Or, how do  I get certain apps, such as: Bible Time, KeePass, VLC
Media Player, Audacity?

Ask and ye shall receive.

charles@hawk:~$ apt-cache search bible | grep -i time
bibletime - bible study tool for Qt
bibletime-data - Documentation and data for bibletime, a bible study tool charles@hawk:~$ apt-cache search KeePass
keepass2 - Password manager
keepass2-doc - Password manager - Documentation
keepass2-plugin-keepasshttp - KeePass2 plugin to expose password entries securely over HTTP
keepassx - Cross Platform Password Manager (empty transitional package) keepassxc - Cross Platform Password Manager
webext-keepassxc-browser - Web browser extension to organize web site credentials in KeePassXC
kpcli - command line interface to KeePassX password manager databases libfile-keepass-perl - interface to KeePass V1 and V2 database files python3-pykeepass - KeePass database library - Python 3.x Module python-secretstorage-doc - Python module for storing secrets - documentation python3-secretstorage - Python module for storing secrets - Python 3.x version charles@hawk:~$

Similarly for vlc and audacity.

For more information on any package, apt show <package-name>. E.g.:

charles@hawk:~$ apt show bibletime
Package: bibletime
Version: 3.0.3-3
Priority: optional
Section: kde
Maintainer: CrossWire Packaging Team <[email protected]>
Installed-Size: 2,082 kB
Provides: sword-frontend
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libclucene-core1v5 (>= 2.3.3.4+dfsg), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.3.1), libqt5core5a (>= 5.15.1), libqt5gui5 (>= 5.11.0~rc1) | libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.11.0~rc1), libqt5printsupport5 (>= 5.0.2), libqt5qml5 (>= 5.0.2), libqt5quick5 (>= 5.0.2) |
libqt5quick5-gles (>= 5.0.2), libqt5quickwidgets5 (>= 5.11.0), libqt5widgets5 (>= 5.14.1), libqt5xml5 (>= 5.0.2), libstdc++6 (>= 5), libsword1.9.0 (>= 1.9.0+dfsg), bibletime-data (= 3.0.3-3), qml-module-qtquick2
Homepage: https://www.bibletime.info/
Tag: culture::german, field::religion, implemented-in::c++,
interface::graphical, interface::x11, role::program, suite::kde,
uitoolkit::qt, use::learning, use::searching, use::viewing,
x11::application
Download-Size: 609 kB
APT-Sources: http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 Packages Description: bible study tool for Qt
BibleTime is a free and easy to use bible study tool.
It uses the Qt and SWORD software libraries.
BibleTime provides easy handling of digitized texts (Bibles, commentaries
and lexicons) and powerful features to work with these texts (search in
texts, write own notes, save, print etc.) in the SWORD module format.

charles@hawk:~$

You could probably benefit from some reading in various manuals and
other documents. https://www.debian.org/doc/index.en.html

Not to discourage you, but we're all volunteers here. We do expect you
to do some reading on your own. And feel free to jump in here to help
others.

--
Does anybody read signatures any more?

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Gregory,


I support you on your decision, "Debian 12.7 with the Cinnamon
desktop".  Cinnamon is very nice to use.


Do you use "Synaptic Package Manager"? I recommend this program. I
find it very useful for finding software packages.


Using Synaptic I found all the programs you were asking about.


As others have also, I recommend installing DebianMultiMedia.


https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia


George.





On Wednesday, 06-11-2024 at 04:21 Gregory Forster wrote:


Hi

    I have an older 14" HP Probook 440 with Intel core I3-4000M,
1TB
HDD, 12GB RAM. After several weeks of debating and switching back and
forth between Debian and Fedora, I settled upon Debian 12.7 with the
Cinnamon desktop, for several reasons. However, there is one question
I
have regarding Debian. How do I get another repository for more apps?
Or, how do  I get certain apps, such as: Bible Time, KeePass, VLC
Media
Player, Audacity?

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