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How to install Launchy on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron)

July 28th, 2008 · Posted by Toor · 2 Comments

With Launchy, you can quickly launch your programs, documents, project files, folders, and bookmarks with just a few keystrokes!

To install Launchy on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron), you can execute the following steps:

  1. Installing libqt4-core and libqt4-gui:
    sudo apt-get install libqt4-core libqt4-gui
  2. Download deb package of Launchy, and save to your desktop.
  3. Open you terminal, go to Desktop folder:
    cd ~/Desktop
  4. Installing Launchy:
    sudo dpkg -i launchy_2.1.1-1_i386.deb
  5. Now you can run Launchy by clicking Applications → Accessories → Launchy.

    launchy-start.png

Launchy screenshot:

launchy.png

Launchy options:

launchy-option-thumb.png

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