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Originally Posted by snowpine
Welcome to the forums!
The first thing you must know about Linux, we do not blindly follow tutorials and how-to's from untrusted sources. You give us a quote but don't say where you got this information. Who told you to do this? Do you trust this person you quoted? Why aren't you asking this person your follow-up question?
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Thanks for the welcome.
I got the quote from the instructions to new members here.
I would suggest that the said instructions be updated ASAP.
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The second thing you should know about Linux is that most distributions (like Zorin) have a "package manager" to easily install tested and trusted software. Here are instructions to do this in Zorin: http://www.zorin-os.com/packagemanagersguide.html
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I am not used to Zorin and not that au fait with Ubuntu, though I have been using it since 10.
I went to Zorin instead of Mint after Ubuntu changed from Gnome to whatever because the shop installed it after failing to find my "3" mobile drivers.
It came with Chrome which I remembered not liking. My website is on MyOpera thus I wantd that on it. I don't think the packages at Zorin will have Opera's browser, though I confess I forgot to look.
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gaim is now called pidgin so follow the instructions above and you can easily install pidgin.
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I can't remember the last time I used a messenger service -IIRC Pigin is one of those. Your "Read Me" really is out of date, IIAC.
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To answer your specific question, "cd" stands for "change directory" but you should never need to use the command line terminal to install applications; follow the Zorin instructions I linked to above for best results.
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Thanks once more but I am going to need to be able to use the Command Line as virtually all help is, AFAIAA, given in instructions to the command line.