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  • @[email protected]English
    4•8 days ago

    Same. I like it that I can install Librewolf and some other software on Mint from Flathub instead of adding some obscure repositories with commands I don’t even understand.

    Like with docker, this isn’t healthy:

    # Add Docker's official GPG key:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ca-certificates curl
sudo install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings
sudo curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc
sudo chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc

# Add the repository to Apt sources:
echo \
  "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu \
  $(. /etc/os-release && echo "${UBUNTU_CODENAME:-$VERSION_CODENAME}") stable" | \
  sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null
sudo apt-get update

    Source: https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/ubuntu/

    • @[email protected]English
      2•8 days ago

      adding some obscure repositories with commands I don’t even understand.

      You may want to learn the commands and review the repos.

      this isn’t healthy:

      True, but not in a way that SnapPakImage is going to fix.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•7 days ago

        this isn’t healthy:

        True, but not in a way that SnapPakImage is going to fix.

        What about that isn’t “healty”?
        You are basically downloading and saving the signing key of docker to the currently recommended place with appropriate permissions, and adding the docker deb-repository, explicitly stating that it should be signed by that particular key.
        If you don’t trust docker, don’t add their repo. By the same logic, the Flathub repo is an “obscure repository” too.