I have not seen dbl. g's in mahjong before.
At any rate, I was not able to download anything. The Ubuntu site says: "this needs to be opened by an application" it then goes to my desktop. What application?? It doesn't give a hint about how I can get one.
I'm trying to download a set of Mahjong games.
I'm going to use apt.
Thanks!
Matt

Re #16.
Well, we will know what's about, when you have posted a link to that site.
I.e. a direct link to the page with the text "this needs to be opened by an application".

I don't understand the Msg. ? Is it meant to be ironic? Did I break some invisible taboo?
Matt

I don't understand how you didn't understand this message.

Where on the Ubuntu site did you find that game? We need the EXACT link.

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I think you're missing something fundamental about Ubuntu which has been hinted at but not fully spelled out here:
You should not be installing anything by downloading it then installing it as you would Windows*. At best this is inefficient and at worst downright damaging to your system stability. What you should be doing instead is going to the Software Center and finding things like VLC in there and telling it to install them for you. This is because in most Linux distributions there are servers called "repositories" where software is stored specifically for your Linux distribution (in this case Ubuntu) to be installed with something called a package manager, to which Software Centre is just one front end.
https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applicat...ftware-center/
When you're used to things a bit more you might want to do what some of the commenters on the linked to page do and install synaptic and use that instead but let's take things one step at a time.

*This is aimed at an Ubuntu beginner before some Arch, Slackware or LFS user comes along and says they don't work like this.

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