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I have an admin account(say X) where I have installed some 50 software packages. Now I want to create another admin account(say Y) who can use all 50 software packages.

Is this possible? How do I share the software packages installed on one user account with another?

Nagendra Rao
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  • I do not understand your question. What kind of software packages are you talking about. Software packages are installed on the system and all users shall have access to them. So I do not see why you need to install them for another user. They should be there for all users, unless you are talking about some special software packages that I have never heard of. – nobody Jan 31 '16 at 08:11
  • @nobody software like Skype, Android Studio for instance, it doesn't appear on other account. – Nagendra Rao Jan 31 '16 at 08:13
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    I believe Skype should work unless you copied binaries to home of the first user. However, you should enter user's credential for each user. For Android Studio i think the problem is, that this one actually installs to home directory of a user. For this one copy the app installation to the new user and it will probably work. Maybe you need to setup some paths. I am not sure. It really depends on each application, how it works and how it is setup. Generally applications should not be installed in the home directory if you ask me. – nobody Jan 31 '16 at 08:19
  • @nobody Yes, most packages are already shared across all users, but a few aren't. Thanks for your reply. – Nagendra Rao Jan 31 '16 at 08:32

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By default the Ubuntu package management installs all applications for all users.

This will not stop you from manually installing additional applications to a user's HOME directory. In this case you will have to copy this installation over to the other user's HOME.

Most applications will store user defined settings in a user's HOME. Most but depending on the application not all setting may also just be copied over to a new account to make them identical.

A special case are virtual machine's hard drives or Wine bottles that will be stored in a user's HOME by default. To use these from all accounts we can either make a copy resp. clone them to the other account, or we make sure we store these in a shared directory accessible to multiple users.

Takkat
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