How to stop Frequent Password Prompt?

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Hi, I am facing a lot of problem using the Software app in my notebook laptop. Every time I want to remove or install some software it asks for a Password. This is real frustrating for very slow laptop like mine. How to fix this Issue and Install and Remove stuff more easily :smiling_face:

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Ubuntu Software manager contacts the application server every time you try to install or remove something from the software application, this requires the computer password. I accept this can get real frustrating in old laptops. But, you can use the terminal as it asks for the password only once :smile:

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I am not really into linux :slightly_frowning_face: and don't know how to install and remove application from there.

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You can use a search engine to search for the ubuntu code to install and remove a particular application :smile:

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Not finding anything in particular!
Can you please text the codes to install brave, vlc, idle, spotify, steam, snap, qbittorent and sql.

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To install Brave

sudo apt install apt-transport-https curl

sudo curl -fsSLo /usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg

echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg arch=amd64] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main"|sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list

sudo apt update

sudo apt install brave-browser
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For vlc
First install snap

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install snapd
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then

sudo apt install VLC
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for idle

sudo apt install idle
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For spotify,

$ sudo snap install spotify
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for steam,

$ sudo add-apt-repository multiverse
$ sudo apt update
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then,

$ sudo apt install steam
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for qbittorent,

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt upgrade

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:qbittorrent-team/qbittorrent-stable

$ sudo apt update

$ sudo apt install qbittorrent

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for sql,

wget -qO- https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | sudo apt-key add -

sudo add-apt-repository "$(wget -qO- https://packages.microsoft.com/config/ubuntu/20.04/mssql-server-preview.list)"

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y mssql-server

sudo /opt/mssql/bin/mssql-conf setup

systemctl status mssql-server --no-pager

sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt install curl

curl https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | sudo apt-key add -
curl https://packages.microsoft.com/config/ubuntu/20.04/prod.list | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/msprod.list

sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get install mssql-tools unixodbc-dev

sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get install mssql-tools

echo 'export PATH="$PATH:/opt/mssql-tools/bin"' >> ~/.bash_profile

echo 'export PATH="$PATH:/opt/mssql-tools/bin"' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

To Connect Locally

sqlcmd -S localhost -U sa -P '<YourPassword>'

CREATE DATABASE TestDB;
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I suppose that's everything :smile:

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I also wanted to remove the inbuilt apps like, Libre Office and Firefox.

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Remove Libre Office

sudo apt-get remove --purge libreoffice*
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoremove

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Remove Firefox

sudo apt-get purge firefox

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Thank you very much For your Time :smiley_cat: :smile:

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:smile: My Pleasure

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