Installing is almost pain-free with apt
I have been biased towards Debian-based apps because of Apt, the package manager. I saw one of my co-workers trying to install an application from a downloaded package. Though it’s not really that difficult to install a downloaded package, sometimes you might encounter quirks like missing dependencies. In case you didn’t read the download’s instructions properly, it might not work because of the dependencies that have to be satisfied.
Installing the packages via apt is not scary because you could search through the packages via apt-cache search. So even if you’re not that familiar it should be ok. I find it better to use it because I could leave it up to apt to get the packages and their dependencies too. There are some drawbacks though. For one, the packages in the repository are not always the latest version. This might be a problem if you need certain features of the application you would like to install.
For new Linux users, this is probably one of the easiest ways to go about installation of packages rather than compiling from source. I personally would rather use an application that’s in the repositories so that I won’t end up confused with the dependencies. But, there are cases where it’s better to compile from source or use a package already. Hopefully everything works perfectly after the install. :)
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