{"id":3723,"date":"2014-07-31T10:58:37","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T10:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=3723"},"modified":"2014-07-31T10:58:37","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T10:58:37","slug":"app-grid-alternative-ubuntu-software-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2014\/07\/app-grid-alternative-ubuntu-software-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Install App Grid &#8211; Lightweight Alternative to Ubuntu Software Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/software-center-icon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/software-center-icon.jpg\" alt=\"Lightweight Software Center Alternative\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3724\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/software-center-icon.jpg 240w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/software-center-icon-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>App Grid is an Ubuntu Software Center alternative that aims to be <b>lightweight<\/b>, <b>fast<\/b>, <b>clean and simple<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Every day we use USC (Ubuntu Software Center) to install, remove, buy, and manage applications, but it works really slow and freezes frequently in my old laptop.<\/p>\n<p>App Grid provides a clean and simple interface and delivers stunning startup speed, and swift reactions throughout. It has almost all features that USC provides: install, launch, remove button, screenshots, a short description along with user comments, Ubuntu One login and more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/app-grid.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/app-grid.jpg\" alt=\"App Grid Main Window\" width=\"600\" height=\"352\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3725\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/app-grid.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/app-grid-300x176.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/app-grid-install-app.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/app-grid-install-app.jpg\" alt=\"App Grid app description\" width=\"600\" height=\"352\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3726\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/app-grid-install-app.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/app-grid-install-app-300x176.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Install App Grid in Ubuntu:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This project provides an official PPA for Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04, and Ubuntu 12.04.<\/p>\n<p>To install it, press <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> on keyboard to open the terminal. When it opens, run the commands below one by one:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:appgrid\/stable\n\nsudo apt-get update\n\nsudo apt-get install appgrid<\/pre>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t want to add the PPA, grab the .deb package directly from <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~appgrid\/+archive\/ubuntu\/stable\/+packages\" target=\"_blank\">Launchpad Page<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>App Grid is an Ubuntu Software Center alternative that aims to be lightweight, fast, clean and simple. Every day we use USC (Ubuntu Software Center) to install, remove, buy, and manage applications, but it works really slow and freezes frequently in my old laptop. App Grid provides a clean and simple interface and delivers stunning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[855,1084,1126],"class_list":["post-3723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-ubuntu-14-04","tag-ubuntu-14-10","tag-ubuntu-software-center-alternative"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}