https://mullvad.net/en/help/install-mullvad-app-linux
Trying to install VPN and these are the instructions Mullvad is giving me. This is ridiculous. There must be a more simple way. I know how to follow the instructions but I have no idea what I’m doing here. Can’t I just download a file and install it? I’m on Ubuntu.
Any instructions that say sudo curl should be thrown out immediately.
Is curl so untrusted that you would prefer to use 3 commands (one which still needs root permissions) instead?
The point is that an HTTPS request does not need root permissions. Other steps might, and that’s indeed high risk.
The curl that ships with apt is ubiquitous enough that I trust doing
sudo curl xxx yyymore than enough if it means avoiding typingcurl xxx /tmp/yyy && sudo mv /tmp/yyy yyy