klik: True click-and-run software

Debian’s APT makes installing software a breeze: you just run apt-get update&&apt-get upgrade to download and install the latest versions of all your software, or apt-get install widget to install widget on your machine. Pretty easy and painless. But now there’s something available that’s even easier and more painless: klik.

APT is cool, but it still has a few limitations, as do all other software install methods on Linux. For instance, software installation often requires root access, which you may not have. And although Linux is certainly far better than Windows, where an install “vomits” files all over the system, you still often end up with files in /usr/bin, /usr/lib, /usr/share, /etc, /home, /bin, and who knows where else when you put a new program on your distro. Not to mention, in spite of the efforts of the Linux Standard Base project, developers still have to rework each package for each of the various Linux distros out there. There are other issues, but you get the idea.

klik attempts to resolve all of these issues. However, there are a few caveats (as always, right?). Right now, klik is officially supported on Kanotix (in fact, it comes pre-installed on Kanotix), the latest versions of Knoppix, MEPIS, and the newest version of Linspire,” Five-O.” It’s also possible to install klik on Debian and other Debian-based distros, like Libranet, but it doesn’t yet work on RPM-based distros like SuSE and Fedora Core. Hopefully, that will change in the future.

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I have personally used this software when it first came out and when I was running a debian system. It was easy to use than and they have added way more programs to it. Check it out and give it a whirl.