Desktop for Linux Help

Google Desktop for Linux is a free, downloadable application that allows you to search your files, music, and other media, email, and recently viewed webpages. To install Google Desktop for Linux systems, please visit http://desktop.google.com/linux/ to download the appropriate package type for your system (either rpm or deb). Once downloaded, please follow these steps to finish the installation process:

For rpm packages:

1. Open a terminal.
2. Switch to root privilege or use sudo to run the following command:

rpm -U google-desktop-linux-1.X.X.XXXX.rpm

For deb (Debian) packages:

1. Open a terminal.
2. Switch to root privilege or use "sudo" to run the following command:

dpkg -i google-desktop-linux_1.X.X.XXXX_i386.deb

Alternatively, you can also use your Linux system's GUI package management tool to install Google Desktop.

Google Desktop for Linux runs on computers using Linux kernel 2.4.x or above. For complete system requirement details, please visit http://desktop.google.com/support/linux/bin/answer.py?answer=63287

For more information about Google Desktop, please see http://desktop.google.com/linux/gettingstarted.html