Is it safe to manually download a package from this site and then install the .deb file using apt? Is there anything more secure about using apt to download the package?

  • @Pantherina@feddit.de
    3•2 years ago

    Why? This is the question when installing an external DEB, but from the own repo makes no sense.

    Or do you mean that package is just there, and you dont want to add it to your e.g. Ubuntu system to mess things up?

    You may just want to use Distrobox in that case, to really seperate things, as mixing distros, with ESR versions, backports and all that, especially when using two very similar but very differently paced distros, is just screaming for breakages.