## Raspberry Pi App Store for Open Source Projects
### Why use pi-apps?
Say there's **a guy**. He's a beginner and comes from a Windows background.
On day one, he will try to install a few familiar Windows apps. He searches the web and finds a **bad tutorial**. The tutorial says to install an x86 deb file on your PC. Well that didn't work on the Pi!
So he searches again. This time he finds an **outdated tutorial** (from RPi's Wheezy days) on **some random dude's blog**. The procedure **destroys his OS**. Now this guy has to re-flash his SD card. **What a hassle.** :(
This happens to hundreds of beginner users every day of the year.
It's about time: someone needs to **make a collection bash scripts that install apps with a click of a button**. Pi-Apps is here to help!
Say there's **a guy**. He's comes from a Windows background and doesn't know much about Linux or RPi.
On day one, he tries to install a few familiar Windows apps. If he's lucky, he'll find a tutorial that doesn't work anymore. If he's unlucky, he will find a tutorial that bricks his OS. So on day one, this guy has followed two faulty tutorials and destroyed his system. How annoying!
Something needs to be done! Why hasn't anybody made a collection of bash scripts that install apps easily?
Pi-Apps does exactly this - distributing over 50 app-installers that are executed with one click of the mouse.
## To install Pi-Apps
Install git(if you haven't already) with
`sudo apt install git`, then do
Make sure `git` is installed with `sudo apt install git`, then run:
```
git clone https://github.com/Botspot/pi-apps
~/pi-apps/install
@ -37,8 +34,12 @@ Menu -> Accessories -> Pi Apps, or type `~/pi-apps/gui`.
> "I love pi-apps. It's great and installs tons of useful software that people don't know how to install. Great work Botspot!" - **[Raspberry Pi Projects and More](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkv0fW0EIUTKw6pYEnTjTbQ)**
> "Pi-Apps is the reason I got a Pi4!" - behjemen from Discord
> "Thanks for the great work making it all simple for everybody." - [**ShiftPlusOne** (RPi moderator)](https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=290329&p=1755860#p1755857)
> "Good luck with your projects, Botspot, you're really making waves!" - **[Sakaki](https://github.com/sakaki-)**
> "I love Pi-Apps and I chase all my friends around tryna get them to install it" - Beiop from Discord
Botspot
4 years ago
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