If I install software from .deb file, do I still get the updates & upgrades when I run sudo apt update / upgrade ? Or is flatpak the way to go? I’m not very familiar with flatpak, so I’m trying to avoid, but it seems that cons are limited. I’m currently running mint cinnamon (how original, I know), and asking because i can’t seem to add mullvad-vpn stable repo. Thank you for your help,

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    14 hours ago

    I assumed it’s not the case since mullvad states it’s not meant to be used on mont, but is there a way to check?

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      8 hours ago

      Where does mullvad say it’s not meant to be used on Mint ? I literally have it running on 5 mint devices.

      Can’t see that on their website at a quick search

      Saying it is not supported is not the same as not meant to be used

      In fact to the contrary this references install for mint

      https://mullvad.net/en/help/install-mullvad-app-linux

      Got to the section that says

      “Download and install the app”

      For a command line explanation

      Honestly though just download the .deb and double click on it out of the folder to get debi to install. It’s all gui and easy

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        10 hours ago

        you can also just check dpkg -L $installed_package_namegrep /etc/apt/ to find files that would have been installed by the package there.