• rotopenguin@infosec.pub
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    1 year ago

    If a website stuffed a .deb into your Downloads folder and you click on it, should the default behaviour be to run it? Is there a significant pile of Ubuntu software out there that is unavailable in the apt and snap and flatpak stores? Other stores such as Steam and Epic (Heroic) are easily installable via … starting in your apt/snap/flatpak store.

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      1 year ago

      Well, that marks the first time I’ve seen anyone refer to it as “the apt store.” Thanks, I hate it.

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        1 year ago

        It can install a service that will start automatically after install, so for all intents and purposes, if you click it and enter your sudo password, you might as well have run an executable.

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        1 year ago

        It has pre and post-install scripts. Once you hand it off to dpkg, it can do pretty much anything.