Request for simplified instructions for downloading and installing .tar.gz applications - Ventoy
Tom Mitchell
niftyubuntu at niftyegg.com
Wed Aug 3 02:41:40 UTC 2022
On Tue, Aug 2, 2022 at 1:49 PM Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2 Aug 2022 12:56:05 -0700, Tom Mitchell wrote:
> >There is no easy and safe way to install a tar archive of files without
> >it being sourced from a very trusted source.
>
> Hi,
>
> you can ask upstream to provide signed checksums. If the key is part of
> a web of trust there's no issue anymore, unless you should be allergic
> to binaries from upstream.
Thank you.
The question was general, so "I addressed a general procedure".
As I said ... interesting idea and the more that use and watch it the
better the trust profile builds.
Again, Thank you.
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