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Comment by Timber-6539 | Hacker News Reader

Takes 7 steps to install Firefox this way as opposed to apt-get install.

This comment doesn’t make any sense. Installing a deb file is done with apt, what are you actually referring to when you say “apt-get install”?

apt, apt-get, aptitude and synaptic are all front ends to the same package management system.

I’m well aware of that. How is that in any way relevant to the question I was asking?

apt-get install will automatically download and install the deb for you.

Are you insinuating that this would not happen with the instructions from Firefox?

Not unless you create an automated script for the instructions. Am strictly picking on the guide.

1. Add the apt repo

2. Add the repo's public key

3. apt-get update

4. apt-get install firefox

What 3 steps am I missing?

Counting “steps” is inane to begin with. Those could all be done with a one-liner, does that make it one step?

You could do this with a one-liner I suppose, but the Firefox guide still gives you 7 steps to accomplish something apt will do with a single command.

You are either trolling or you have a very fundamental lack of understanding for what those seven steps actually do and how package management works.

Am simply saying the alternative to doing this is a "one-click" apt-get install. Not sure why you have your panties in a twist.

but you are on an older version of ffx

*temporarily delayed version. This is a complicated nuance depending on the release cadence of your distro.

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