Make apt-get download instructions more obvious

stdedos

I believe these kind of instructions
https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install-vivaldi-browser-on-ubuntu-18-04-bionic-beaver-linux
are more native to Un*x systems than downloading a deb file and installing it manually (as here https://vivaldi.com/download/)

Would it make sense to incorporate somewhere in your site? Or are they somewhere, and I cannot find them?

stdedos

@Gwen-Dragon From my Chrome browser, hitting F1 does not help

Instead, it leads to https://support.google.com/chrome/?p=help&ctx=keyboard#topic=9796470

stdedos

@Gwen-Dragon Can this https://help.vivaldi.com/article/manual-setup-vivaldi-linux-repositories/ be added to the download site, when the browser is detected to be from Ubuntu?

https://vivaldi.com/download/ from my Ubuntu PC gives me:

which looks a bit funny

Adrien_D

Hi,
On Ubuntu, you don't need do all command lines which described in the topic.
When you install the DEB file, (Clic to download, Double click to install, the graphical package manager install Vivaldi), the repository is added (as a foreign repo). You can see in /etc/apt/sources.list.d folder a file named vivaldi.list.
So download vivaldi as if you are under Windows and you will receive updates from your package manager

stdedos

Or, what you both might be missing, is I can do:

#!/bin/sh
#
# Provision my new desktops

[...]
# Vivaldi
wget -qO- https://repo.vivaldi.com/archive/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add -
sudo add-apt-repository 'deb https://repo.vivaldi.com/archive/deb/ stable main' -y
[...]

sudo apt install [...] vivaldi-stable [...]

instead of carrying an outdated blob to do so.

While, unfortunately, it won't save it in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vivaldi.list, I think upstream should solve it instead (add-apt-repository to allow saving to a new file in sources.list.d or vivaldi not force-creating /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vivaldi.list / move related lines).

If someone has a more complete auto-provisioning mechanism for desktops, I am all ears