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?
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?
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.
You can do this instead: https://tadeubento.com/2023/debian-iso-downloads-and-offline-archives/ + https://tadeubento.com/2023/debian-iso-images-as-apt-repositories/ and have it all.