gnomek
February 28, 2021, 12:33pm
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it requires fiddling with the command line, a certain know-how that can leave newbies confused and make them give up in exasperation if any, say, dependency issues arise
it’s a messy way to install and upgrade software
I am not against your idea but separate from security arguments, these arguments are not very convincing.
It doesn’t require command line nor installing. It only requires clicking on Anki file:
/anki-2.1/bin/./Anki
And you can create an icon shortcut for it.
Here is the link to previous discussion:
Most linux distributions ship with outdated versions of Anki.
Your tar.gz build doesn’t provide app-armor protection, which can be helpful against malicious 3rd party addons and it’s not guaranteed, that your tar.gz build will run on every distribution.
Flatpak does provide both. App-armor protection and a working application on every distribution that supports flatpak
But there is no official flatpak build of Anki.
Could you create an official supported flatpak build for anki on a regular b…