Hey friends and welcome to Nomadic Dmitry channel. This is a part three of Arca OS review series
In previous two episodes we have discussed installing Arca OS and then using applications
that were shipped with an operating system
Today we are going to talk about installing third-party applications on the system
The first method of installing applications is simple
We just need to open Terminal and use "yum" package manager
"yum install" command allows us to install packages and applications to the system
"yum update" updates the packages on the system to the latest versions
Typically you need to install dependencies before you can install applications
Typically you install packages and then install the applications itself by coping files
We can also see what yum version is used there
One of the commonly used packages is "wget" and we can easily install it using "yum" command. As you can see it's already installed
Let's talk about other methods of installing software. For example if we open FM/2 file manager that I've installed here
And then we can look into "Downloads" folder that I have here where the apps are installed
And let's talk about specific methods of installation. The first method is using installation wizards like WarpIN, it's just a self unpacking installer
It does all the job for you and you don't need to install anything manually
It's a good method, but unfortunately not all the software having this method
That's why in many cases you still need to manually copy files
I wanted to show you an mp3 player that I have installed right here
We can open it like that in Terminal and then load the mp3 files that we want
For some reason it was not opening the files itself - seems like audio device was not found
That's why it will not work out of the box, but it gives you some idea of how the mp3 player for OS/2 looks like
But I think that a better video and audio player is a well known VLC media player. It's available for Arca OS too
You can still play video and audio files here using this player
Another file browser that I recommend trying is "Captain Nemo"
It looks like a typicall DOS Navigator, FAR Manager, Midnight Commander kind of browser
We talked about the preferred ways of installing packages, but sometimes you need to open an archive and manually copy the files
This is what I've done in case of VLC - I've installed dependencies and then I've copied all the files manually
That's how we install applications and manage dependencies in OS/2 world
There is also an Arca OS built in package manager which has a user interface (Arca Noae package manager)
We can see all the packages there and install more when necessary
We can search through the packages here, check the versions and uninstall or reinstall when necessary
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I'm planning to install it on an actual laptop computer and see how it works
A virtual machine is interesting, but still not the best method of using the ArcaOS. Installing it on real computer would make more sense. How about a Thinkpad T61 that I have?