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Re: Mozilla VPN on Debian?

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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 <dsr@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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  Re: Mozilla VPN on Debian? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-02-26 21:10 +0100
    Re: Mozilla VPN on Debian? D&P Dimov <lddimov@yahoo.com> - 2021-02-26 22:00 +0100
    Re: Mozilla VPN on Debian? Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2021-02-27 11:50 +0100
      Re: Mozilla VPN on Debian? D&P Dimov <lddimov@yahoo.com> - 2021-02-27 19:30 +0100
        Re: Mozilla VPN on Debian? Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2021-02-28 16:20 +0100
  Re: Mozilla VPN on Debian? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-02-26 21:20 +0100
    Re: Mozilla VPN on Debian? D&P Dimov <lddimov@yahoo.com> - 2021-02-26 21:50 +0100
      Re: Mozilla VPN on Debian? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-02-26 22:30 +0100
        Re: Mozilla VPN on Debian? Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2021-02-26 23:10 +0100
        Re: Mozilla VPN on Debian? D&P Dimov <lddimov@yahoo.com> - 2021-02-27 19:00 +0100

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