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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 screenshot:

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