Re: after installing viber, nowhere to be found?
On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 12:48:42PM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote:
> > I got the file via this command:
> >
> > wget https://download.cdn.viber.com/cdn/desktop/Linux/viber.deb
*shudder*
> > kaye@laptop:~/Downloads$ sudo dpkg -i viber.deb
For the record, "apt install ./viber.deb" would at least attempt to
download missing dependencies for you. dpkg will not.
And yes, the ./ is significant.
> > viber depends on libssl1.0.0; however:
> > Package libssl1.0.0 is not installed.
> Yeah, that's a very old security library that is known to have
> holes.
It's in jessie. If the OP is running jessie, then it should be fine,
since the Debian LTS team should have patched whatever holes you're
thinking of. Probably.
If the OP is not running jessie, then the main issue is that they're
going to need to provide this library somehow. The cleanest way to do
that would be to add a jessie source to sources.list, and use apt
to install it. That'll at least give the benefit of keeping it
patched so long as jessie's LTS support for it continues.
But in the long run, using a third party .deb for a two-releases-old
(for now!) version of Debian may not really be the wisest decision.
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