AptUrl, Install packages using apt protocol

This is a small howto cum help page to help those linuxers who are having trouble installing packages from the links we mention in our blogs. I guess when you try to open the link you get this error message "firefox doesn't know how to open this address". Basically, it means that firefox doesn't know how to handle the apt:// protocol. In order to make it work, you will have to install apturl.

Run this command in the terminal

[shredder12]$ sudo apt-get install apturl

Now, Firefox will have a handler for apt protocol, apt://. Try clicking on this link apturl and you will see a message saying "Package apturl is already installed". As you can see now, firefox knows how to handle apt protocol.