Using apt-cache search allowed me to search for a range of specified applications to install. For this exercise, I entered the commands apt-cache search photo and chose to install gimp, apt-cache search games and chose to install kmines, and apt-cache search video player and chose to install dragonplayer. This screenshot shows the list of available video players after running apt-cache search video player.
To install each of these applications, I used the sudo apt-get install command. By typing sudo apt-get install gimp (as this next screenshot shows), I was able to install the photo editor GIMP.
GIMP is a photo editor comparable to (but definitely not as good as) Photoshop.
Kmines is a complete rip-off to the game Minesweeper.
Dragon Player is a very basic Media Player.
For the next part of the assignment, I went into the /var/log directory by typing the command cd /var/log. Typing ls allowed me to see which logs were available for analysis. I decided to go with the syslog for this assignment.
By typing grep ubuntu /var/log/syslog, I was able to see the activity that had occurred within the syslog.
