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bluebarbettoday at 6:39 PM2 repliesview on HN

In Debian-Ubuntu it's become a standard pattern to use `curl` or `wget` to add a third-party `deb` repo with keychain integration, because for whatever reason there's still no `apt` command for this obvious scenario. Really grinds my gears.


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hoherdtoday at 8:27 PM

That is not a "userspace package manager" though. That still requires root.

chuckadamstoday at 7:39 PM

Doesn't apt-add-repository do all that?

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