Kenneth Parker wrote: > I happily run Chromium under, both Debian Buster and Devuan Ascii (non > SystemD equivalent to Stretch). It comes with proper .deb files and > installs quite well, thank you very much.
Chromium is the open-source version of Chrome. You can also get Chrome itself from Google, if that's what you want. That's not an open-source package. > Somehow, Ubuntu decided to make Chromium a Snap Package. (I'm reading the > articles about it now. I don't like it). > > *But*, I decided to install Mint 20, to help out a Friend, who is doing > some work I support under it. Mint hates Snap, even though it's based on > Ubuntu. However, they didn't take the step themselves to put the Debian > Repositories in for Chromium. > [/background] > > Now, when running Debian Systems, people caution against mixing > Repositories from other Distributions. Does this work the other way? > Would I get into trouble, adding the Buster (or Bullseye) Repositories, > only for installing Chromium from it? The underlying reason for avoiding mixing repos is that you create a system where things stop working and you might not be able to get back to usable. This is least likely to happen when you install a repo that only adds an application package: if the package doesn't work, you know what went wrong and how to remove it. It is most likely to happen when you install a repo with lots of packages, especially libraries that many other packages depend on. > [Humor] > There have been discussions about not creating a FrankenDebian System. How > about FrankenMint or FrankenUbuntu one? > [/Humor] In the end, you are responsible for what you do. When you know what you are doing, it is much safer to experiment than when you don't know what you are doing. You might try getting the Debian Chromium package directly, without a repo. It won't update automatically, but that might also be what you want. -dsr-