Hello all I just started running Linux Mint and I’m trying to install LibreWolf. I ran the commands I was told on the website but it fails every time am I doing something wrong? And how do I fix it thanks!

  • smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de
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    6 months ago

    One thing that could help is showing what is going wrong. Do just the icon does not appear? Do some error show up?

    But regardless, I see that Librewolf is not packaged in Debian official software repositories (online storage a software packages are downloaded from), so they ask you to add their own repository manually, which for APT case (package manager in Linux Mint) is an overwhelming amount of code to type to say at least.

    You say you are a new user, so I can highly recommend that if something is not officially available through simple apt install to try Flatpak. Official guide: https://flathub.org/setup/Debian, TLDR:

    sudo apt install flatpak   # Installs flatpak to your system
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo   # Adds Flathub, the biggest store for flatpaks

    Once it's there:

    flatpak install librewolf

    Someone using Linux for years might know where stuff on system is placed and not fear not knowing what a command do and how to undo it. But if you don't know what is happening, better to stick to distribution provided sources. Otherwise the equivalent would be like typing some commands in Windows to change registry keys :). I think Librewolf should recommend Flatpak by default instead.

    Sorry if this is too much info, just tried to explain things a little more than usual.

  • foremanguy@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    You have 3 solutions :

    • RUN THESE COMMANDS

    sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y wget gnupg lsb-release apt-transport-https ca-certificates

    distro=$(if echo " una bookworm vanessa focal jammy bullseye vera uma " | grep -q " $(lsb_release -sc) "; then lsb_release -sc; else echo focal; fi)

    wget -O- https://deb.librewolf.net/keyring.gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/librewolf.gpg

    sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/librewolf.sources << EOF > /dev/null Types: deb URIs: https://deb.librewolf.net Suites: $distro Components: main Architectures: amd64 Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/librewolf.gpg EOF

    sudo apt update

    sudo apt install librewolf -y

    • USE THE DISTRO APP STORE

    • USE FLATPAK (just enter this command into the terminal)

    flatpak install flathub io.gitlab.librewolf-communitym