On 26/02/2021 21:27, Dan Ritter wrote: > D&P Dimov wrote: >> >> On Friday, February 26, 2021, 3:16:03 PM EST, Dan Ritter >> <d...@randomstring.org> wrote: >> D&P Dimov wrote: >>> Hello, >>> Mozilla VPN is supposed to work on Ubuntu, but I wonder if it will work on >>> Debian as well, considering that Ubintu is build on Debian. Has anyone >>> tried? (The Mozilla support was not helpful in answering my question). >> What protocol is the Mozilla VPN? Most common ones are supported >> in Debian. >> >> Dan, they use WireGuard. >> >> These are the installation instructions they provide: >> Install commands: >> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillacorp/mozillavpn >> sudo apt-get update >> sudo apt-get install mozillavpn >> >> Run command: >> mozillavpn >> If I try to install it, is there a chance it will screw up my system? If >> not, I can try it. If it doesn't work, should >> apt-get remove mozillavpndo be able to uninstall/remove it? > Maybe. add-apt-repository won't work, that's for sure. You could > look it up and add it in /etc/apt/sources.d/ and then run
Why not? ❯ dpkg -S add-apt-repository software-properties-common: /usr/bin/add-apt-repository software-properties-common: /usr/share/man/man1/add-apt-repository.1.gz ❯ apt policy software-properties-common software-properties-common: Installed: 0.96.20.2-2.1 Candidate: 0.96.20.2-2.1 Version table: *** 0.96.20.2-2.1 990 990 http://deb.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages 990 http://deb.debian.org/debian testing/main i386 Packages 500 http://deb.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages 500 http://deb.debian.org/debian unstable/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 0.96.20.2-2 500 500 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable/main amd64 Packages 500 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable/main i386 Packages So add-apt-repository is in debian. The man page even mentions that it handles "ppa:<user>/<ppa-name>" repositories, so I don't see what's so "for sure" about it not working. > > apt update > apt show mozillavpn > > and look at what it Depends on. If it's self-contained, it will > probably work. If it drags in new versions of libraries, you > could potentially trash your system. The term is FrankenDebian, > to suggest Frankenstein's monster bolted together from spare > parts. > > But wireguard is directly supported by Debian; it's in > buster-backports. One option would be to get an Ubuntu system > long enough to acquire the wireguard key -- perhaps in a VM -- > and then use the key in a normal /etc/wireguard/wg0.conf setup. > > -dsr- >
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