Beginners Questions • Can't install from a PPA??

It is much better from a technical perspective to install a snap/AppImage/Flatpak if you can find them.

I don't see any advantage to those methods if the .deb repo is properly maintained and the app is as well -- and if it's not, the AppImage, Flatpak, or Snap release will have the same problems.

The downside of those methods is they install a lot of stuff that ought to be part of the operating system, and hence duplicate the OS libraries. Install three of them and you'll have nearly as much bloat as my current install of Debian 12 takes up -- and if you have Snap, the Snap folder in / (as far as my experience) is completely untouchable from within the OS (i.e. you'd have to boot another OS or a Live to be able to rip it out). At least Flatpak and AppImage don't do that; of the three AppImage is best, IMO, because I don't have to install a framework and learn another set of CLI commands to keep the app updated.

I'm no expert and you should wait for someone else to come along but they seem to have a repository just for Debian. Or will that not do? They have stable, alpha, and nightly versions available.

https://boinc.berkeley.edu/linux_install.php

Well, that's what I get -- I was trying to follow the instructions BOINC leadership was giving two or three years ago, which hadn't been updated to indicate they had their own download source. I'll try that one (but it would still be helpful if it were possible to install from PPA, because sometimes that's the only source).

Statistics: Posted by Silent Observer — 2025-01-22 21:37 — Replies 4 — Views 73

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