How to run COOL apps on your Raspberry PI?

This will be a useful (growing) collection of interesting / useful apps to run on your Raspberry PI.

MEDIA

• audio utilities for your PI:
  sudo apt-get install alsa-util
  more…
  

• play mp3 files on your PI:
  sudo apt-get install mpg321
  more…
  

• wav to mp3 converter:
  sudo apt-get install lame
  more…
  

• play all kinds of media files on your PI using the VLC media player:
  sudo apt-get install vlc
  

ACCESSORIES

• libreoffice (a great opensource MicroSoft Office / Open Office clone):
  sudo apt-get install libreoffice-writer libreoffice-calc libreoffice-impress libreoffice-draw libreoffice-base libreoffice-math libreoffice-filter-mobiledev
  Just delete the modules you don’t want to install from the above list:
  libreoffice-writer: Word processor
  libreoffice-calc: Spreadsheet
  libreoffice-impress: Presentation
  libreoffice-draw: Drawing
  libreoffice-base: Database
  libreoffice-math: Equation editor
  libreoffice-filter-mobiledev: Mobile Devices filters

• Chromium (Google web browser):
  sudo apt-get install chromium

• Joe’s Editor: user friendly Unix text editor (my favorite!):
  sudo apt-get install joe

• Midnight Commander (MC) is a “Swiss army knife” for the Linux console and other terminal environments
  sudo apt-get install mc

• RDP remote desktop server for connecting to your PI remotely:
  sudo apt-get install xrdp
  more…