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,

  • Makazzz@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    5·
    23 hours ago

    I did get to install the Mullvad repo on Mint. The thing is they use the “lsb_release -cs” command which give the codename of Mint and not Ubuntu.

    But if you use

    awk -F= '$1=="UBUNTU_CODENAME" { print $2 ;}' /etc/os-release

    It will give the codename for Ubuntu used by Mint.

    Try this from the Mullvad instruction with this change :

    # Download the Mullvad signing key
sudo curl -fsSLo /usr/share/keyrings/mullvad-keyring.asc https://repository.mullvad.net/deb/mullvad-keyring.asc

# Add the Mullvad repository server to apt
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/mullvad-keyring.asc arch=$( dpkg --print-architecture )] https://repository.mullvad.net/deb/stable $(awk -F= '$1=="UBUNTU_CODENAME" { print $2 ;}' /etc/os-release) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mullvad.list

# Install the package
sudo apt update
sudo apt install mullvad-vpn