The install button of the Software Center of my Ubuntu 14.04 is disabled for unknown reason. So I want to install software using terminal. But I don't know the package name.
So how can I get the package name?
N.B: I can see the details of software using Software Center, just not install.
Best Answer
You could search the APT cache for it:
E.g. if I wanted to install SuperTuxKart, but didn't know the package name, I'd use
apt-cache search tux
. This would return a list of packages whose name or short description contains this keyword or matches the regex. An extract from the search for tux:Now I search the results for SuperTuxKart and find the package
supertuxkart
. This obviously is the package name.