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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] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Flatpak has annoyances like sometimes not following your icon theme, or just generally looking out of place because not picking up system defaults.

It works but I avoid it. On Arch Linux, there is a huge AUR repository where users have made native packages, and thats usually much better than Flatpak. But on Ubuntu, Flatpak is the only option sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

@1984 @Dop I find approximately 10% of the AUR packages at any given time won't build and a given package may remain broken for many moths.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

For me its been almost 0%. :) Very happy with it.

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

@1984 Glad for you. I think some of my issues arise from the fact that I only use it occasionally, keys get stale.