Ubuntu installers?

[Liam Proven]

On Wed, 21 Dec 2022 at 22:55, Owen Thomas <owen.paul.thomas at gmail.com> wrote:

> I I became jaded and wary of installing software on Ubuntu a long time ago because there appeared to be many competing "package manager" formats

There are 2. That is not too bewildering.

There's APT and there's Snap. That's it.

You can add more, sure. You can add Flatpak, if you want.

APT can come from the Ubuntu repos or you can add your own. You can
add replacement tools for the `apt` command if you want.

But even so, it is not that excessive.

For apt, I recommend installing Synaptic, which makes it easy to see
what you have got in tabular form.

For installing 3rd party apt-packaged stuff, I like the `deb-get` tool
from Martin Wimpress, who built Ubuntu MATE. It makes it as easy to
install natively-package software as Snap, and as an experiment, I
replaced all my Snaps and Flatpaks with natively-packaged apps using
deb-get. It worked 100% fine, was smaller, faster to update, so I
totally removed both Snap and Flatpak with no ill effects at all.

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