One of the strongest points of Linux is the package management. In 2025, the world of Linux package management is very varied, with several options available, each with their advantages and trade-offs over the others.
    • tauren@lemm.eeEnglish
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      5 months 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/

      • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
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        5 months 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.

      • Samueru_sama@programming.devEnglish
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        5 months ago

        Be aware librewolf and all firefox based browser have security issues with flatpak because flatpak by forcing seccomp filtering breaks the internal sandbox of the browser:

        https://librewolf.net/installation/linux/#security

        Not to mention the librewolf flatpak is literary the portable tarball they release that works on your distro already, in other words it is the worst way possible to use librewolf.

        And you only get that “ease of use” of being able to install it in the software store with one click because your distro did the pain of installing and configuring flatpak for you, otherwise it would have been much worse than what you posted.

        Anyways, try using appman instead:

        wget -q https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ivan-hc/AM/main/AM-INSTALLER && chmod a+x ./AM-INSTALLER && ./AM-INSTALLER

        And then: appman -i librewolf which will “install” the AppImage and you can also sandbox it with am --sandbox librewolf and this sandbox does not break the internal sandbox of the browser unlike flatpak.

    • ms.lane@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      No, FlatPak is centralization in the worst possible way, whilst also making software less usable.

      It’s a terrible thing and it dies to die swiftly.