apt and package versioning

[Colin Law]

On Fri, 6 Mar 2020 at 10:17, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> hi,
> Am Freitag, den 06.03.2020, 09:31 +0000 schrieb Colin Law:
> >  The solution is
> > to use the recommended script for installing node-red, which also
> > works well for Ubuntu in fact.
>
> or use their snap (which has the advantage of being kept more up to
> date than any deb ... i.e. 1.0.4 is already in the edge channel)

The script [1] will always install the latest version, it is
maintained by the node-red team.  There are problems with using the
snap with something like node-red as often one needs access to bits of
hardware (USB serial ports for example) which can be an issue when
using the snap.  There are regular questions on the node red forum [2]
from users having such problems.

Colin

[1] https://nodered.org/docs/getting-started/raspberrypi
[2] https://discourse.nodered.org/