Is it safe to manually download a package from this site and then install the .deb file using apt? Is there anything more secure about using apt to download the package?

    • sir_reginald@lemmy.world
      31·
      9 months ago

      you’re downloading the .deb anyway, so you need a network connection unless you’re downloading the packages in a difderent machine and then transferring them to the target.

      but OP didn’t mention two machines and it is just too rare and specific to be assumed.

      • teawrecks@sopuli.xyz
        3·
        9 months ago

        I don’t think it’s as rare as you think. There are machines that companies will run without an internet connection for years at a time for security reasons. But then one day they need to update some specific program.

        No, I don’t think that’s OPs situation, I was just responding to your question about when that ever made sense to do.

      • Nik282000@lemmy.ca
        2·
        9 months ago

        Occasionally I’ll have to manually dl a .deb for network firmware but that is a no-network situation. For OPs case I think he should just stick to apt.

    • Knusper@feddit.de
      1·
      9 months ago

      That usually doesn’t work, because you need all the dependencies, too. You can download each of those as .deb as well, if you really have no way of accessing the internet, but it’s certainly no fun.