• phx@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Try command line?

    dpkg -i /path/to/package.deb

    That’s likely an app just not installed by default for GUI

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      1 year ago

      Correct, but new users don’t want to need the command line for something as simple as installing packages.

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        1 year ago

        New users probably shouldn’t be installing .debs, especially if they don’t know about terminal commands. I’ve seen so many fucked up systems from people treating Linux as Windows, as in installing everything by searching for stuff on their browser, downloading an installer and installing that.

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    1 year ago

    Unpopular opinion, I think this should be like this if there exists a snap or a package in the repo for it. Even if this is a bug. Maybe they should make a popup educating users about how they don’t need to download installers. As for apps like discord, I believe there is a well maintained snap package available to install easily from the app center. I can’t seem to find chrome there sadly, but it is on flathub. I hope it gets a package.