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Do I still get updates if I install from .deb file? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If I install software from .deb file, do I still get the updates & upgrades when I run sudo apt update / upgrade ? Or is flatpak the way to go? I'm not very familiar with flatpak, so I'm trying to avoid, but it seems that cons are limited. I'm currently running mint cinnamon (how original, I know), and asking because i can't seem to add mullvad-vpn stable repo. Thank you for your help,

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

~~I'm not a Mint user but I would assume the Ubuntu/Debian install instructions on Mullvad would work on Mint as well~~

~~https://mullvad.net/en/download/vpn/linux~~

My bad, just read further in mullvads documentation and they do state that Mint requires manual installation. If I understand it correctly you will need to follow these instructions to install updates as well.

https://mullvad.net/en/help/install-mullvad-app-linux#install-manual

[–] abrasiveteapot 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's reasonable advice. Mullvad is literally the only time I've found the ubuntu instructions to not work on mint

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Prismlauncher has a similar issue, basically you have to sort of "convert" the Ubuntu instructions, thankfully there's a flatpak.