[melbourne-pug] Install ‘conda’ using Debian package manager

William ML Leslie william.leslie.ttg at gmail.com
Wed Aug 2 20:22:46 EDT 2017


On 3 August 2017 at 10:16, William ML Leslie
<william.leslie.ttg at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2 August 2017 at 17:09, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
>> I think it is alarmingly bad advice to say “prepare for this tutorial by
>> downloading this third-party shell script and running it on your
>> computer”. So I've been trying to find a way that is more secure than
>> that.
>>
>
> That's before you even get to hiding size=0 characters in commands
> that people copy and paste into their terminal.
>

On the other hand, you're expecting this program to perform actions
for you such as installing packages, and you are granting it all the
authority of your user, as you do when running any program you
download off the internet.

-- 
William Leslie

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