Is it safe to manually download a package from this site and then install the .deb file using apt? Is there anything more secure about using apt to download the package?

  • Pantherina@feddit.de
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    10 months ago

    Why? This is the question when installing an external DEB, but from the own repo makes no sense.

    Or do you mean that package is just on a Debian repo, and you dont want to add the whole Repo to your e.g. Ubuntu system to mess things up?

    You may just want to use Distrobox in that case, to really seperate things, as mixing distros, with ESR versions, backports and all that, especially when using two very similar but very differently paced distros, is just screaming for breakages.

    So install distrobox, do distrobox create -i and press Tab (in bash) and you will have a list of all images, then do distrobox create Debian -i URL/TO/IMAGE. In there again do a regular apt install of that package.

    You can use Distrobox for every distro supported, install a package thats just in an Ubuntu PPA, the AUR, available for RedHatEL/CentOS, only available for OpenSuse Leap etc. These situations occur, and its great to have these tools!

    Also, doing distrobox export --app NAME inside the container will generate a GUI app entry to click on.