I know there are ways to install software outside of aptitude on debian/ubuntu, (add repo, or build, or download binary, or possibly flatpak/snap/etc).

But being able to download *.deb files was one of the nicest aspect of using a debian based distros and now I’m seeing more and more projects include all distros except deb files.

Someone correct me but I vaguely recall that distributing debs is no longer recommended by debian itself?

  1. Am I wrong, and have I only co-incidentally stumbled on projects that don’t distribute debs?
  2. I am right and this seems like a mis-step, removing one of the most beginner friendly features that helped propagate debian based distros?

Flamesuit on.

  • @gnuhaut@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Ubuntu debs often didn’t work on Debian anyway.

    I’d rather not install third-party debs.

    • EamonnMR
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      Right and you don’t know if it’s an ubuntu deb or a debian deb. I seem to recall that being a pain point, and having to figure out what packages had different names to resolve dependencies… good times.