me@locutus:~$ sudo apt-get install gtk-recordmydesktop Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: recordmydesktop The following NEW packages will be installed: gtk-recordmydesktop recordmydesktop 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/178 kB of archives. After this operation, 1,069 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y Selecting previously deselected package recordmydesktop. (Reading database ... 191741 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking recordmydesktop (from .../recordmydesktop_0.3.8.1+svn602-1ubuntu3_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package gtk-recordmydesktop. Unpacking gtk-recordmydesktop (from .../gtk-recordmydesktop_0.3.8-3ubuntu5_all.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Processing triggers for gnome-menus ... Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ... Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ... Setting up recordmydesktop (0.3.8.1+svn602-1ubuntu3) ... Setting up gtk-recordmydesktop (0.3.8-3ubuntu5) ... Processing triggers for python-support ... me@locutus:~$