Abrowser on Debian, again

I'm thinking you want to use the "nabia" version of that script if possible. The Trisquel Aramo repo is expecting newer versions of libraries from Ubuntu than what Debian 11 will have. After Debian 12 is released, then the Aramo version will probably work.

At least that's what I'm thinking.

There is a newer version of trisquel-keyring than the one the script downloads: try to substitute 2018.02.19 (both occurrences) for 2023.02.07.

Thank you! I did the two suggested changes (used nabia and trisquel-keyring_2023.02.07_all.deb) and it worked! Abrowser is running on Debian.

Everything seems ok, however, when installing it, I got this:

dpkg-deb: error: archive 'trisquel-keyring_2023.02.07_all.deb' uses unknown compression for member 'control.tar.zst', giving up
dpkg: error processing archive trisquel-keyring_2023.02.07_all.deb (--install):
dpkg-deb --control subprocess returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
trisquel-keyring_2023.02.07_all.deb


I am now on a different Debian 11.7 machine.

I installed zstd. I run here the script using nabia and trisquel-keyring_2023.02.07_all.deb but it didn't install Abrowser, it complained about keys.

Then I run the script as it is at https://trisquel.info/files/abrowser-on-debian.txt -that is, using nabia and trisquel-keyring_2018.02.19_all.deb- and it worked! It installed Abrowser!

I don't understand, does it need both the old a new keyrings?

Yes, this is what I have.

amuza@debian:~$ sudo apt policy zstd
zstd:
Installed: 1.4.8+dfsg-2.1
Candidate: 1.4.8+dfsg-2.1
Version table:
*** 1.4.8+dfsg-2.1 500
500 tor://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
1.4.4+dfsg-3ubuntu0.1 -1
-1 http://archive.trisquel.info/trisquel nabia-updates/main amd64 Packages
-1 http://archive.trisquel.info/trisquel nabia-updates/main amd64 Packages
amuza@debian:~$ sudo apt policy trisquel-keyring
trisquel-keyring:
Installed: 2018.02.19
Candidate: 2023.02.07
Version table:
2023.02.07 500
-1 http://archive.trisquel.info/trisquel nabia-updates/main amd64 Packages
*** 2018.02.19 500
-1 http://archive.trisquel.info/trisquel nabia-updates/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
amuza@debian:~$ sudo apt upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
-REDACTED-
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be upgraded:
trisquel-keyring
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/5.832 B of archives.
After this operation, 5.120 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
dpkg-deb: error: archive '/var/cache/apt/archives/trisquel-keyring_2023.02.07_all.deb' uses unknown compression for member 'control.tar.zst', giving up
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/trisquel-keyring_2023.02.07_all.deb (--unpack):
dpkg-deb --control subprocess returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/trisquel-keyring_2023.02.07_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


But that's not a problem for me now, Abrowser works, at least for now.

Regarding why using Debian. I moved some computers to Debian because I had to use some updated programs. But I guess with all this pinning priority thing [0] I might try to come back to safe Trisquel and run those applications from the Debian repos.

[0] https://wiki.debian.org/AptConfiguration

What is the license of this script?

Also, apt is for interactive use only. apt-get is for scripts.

https://www.howtogeek.com/791055/apt-vs.-apt-get-whats-the-difference-on-linux/