Hi everyone,

I had a friend try stackexchange and he was disappointed that a bunch of the easier commands (like recommending installing applications) was still too complicated for someone like his father.

There is a service called apt.ubuntu.com that prompts the user to install something from the software center, for example:

You should install Banshee.

The link I used here is http://apt.ubuntu.com/p/banshee This works for anything in the archive!

If you're using Firefox and/or Chromium from the archive this launches the Ubuntu Software Center. If you are using Chrome you will get an error (see this bug).

However, I think the benefits of having something like this for end users to just click on outweighs the people using normal Chrome, which comes from an external source anyway, so we can likely just put it in the FAQ (and the bug will eventually get fixed anyway).

I think it's probably a good idea to get on an agreed-to convention earlier before it's too late to go back and update everything when we grow.