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Is it safe to install programs other than with a distro's package manager?
Generally speaking, yes, it’s safe, assuming the software provider is trustworthy and the software you’re installing hasn’t been tampered with (I didn’t address that because you explicitly said you ...
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Is it safe to install programs other than with a distro's package manager?
Software installed outside of the package manager is generally not tracked by it.
Installing software manually might lead to conflicts with packages installed through the package manager. If the ...
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Is it safe to install programs other than with a distro's package manager?
This is not generally possible to answer, since we don't know what the installation entails, especially so when installing something via a command like this:
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf ...
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Is it safe to install programs other than with a distro's package manager?
It’s impossible to be sure when you’re effectively ‘taking the Windows approach’ and downloading and running some random bit of software. Some is well behaved and will put everything under /opt or /...
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Is it safe to install programs other than with a distro's package manager?
Comparison of package safety
There's no such thing as absolutely safe or absolutely unsafe. It's all relative. But relatively speaking, distribution packages are generally safer for multiple reasons. ...
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nvidia package not removed
sudo apt --purge remove nvidia-driver-470
will purge the nvidia-driver-470 package, and any package which depends on it (and it will tell you what these are, if any, before doing so).
It doesn’t ...
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How to install and update only the firefox package from Mozilla repository in Debian but keep the firefox-esr from Debian stable repository?
Your configuration is fine. apt policy shows priority 1 for the Mozilla repository, except for the firefox package which is pinned at 500. This is confirmed by the apt policy output for the firefox ...
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