Hellfire103@lemmy.ca to GNU+Linux Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agoIt's heating up over on Tumblrlemmy.caimagemessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down10 cross-posted to: tumblr@lemmy.world
arrow-up14arrow-down1imageIt's heating up over on Tumblrlemmy.caHellfire103@lemmy.ca to GNU+Linux Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square7fedilink cross-posted to: tumblr@lemmy.world
minus-squareNorgur@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoOkay… uhm… consider me out of the loop here: What is a “gimmick account” and how is the first reply related to that?
minus-squareIndieGamer4449@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoA gimmick account is an account that has one (or more) gimmick or bit that the account does and only does. So in this case there were two (unofficial) distro accounts giving support terminal commands to install something from their appropriate repos
minus-squareUndearius@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-21 year agoYou have to install them from the AUR using : yay -S tumblr-gimmick-git
minus-squaresuodrazah@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoDon’t do that. You can install them from the Ubuntu repos. Sudo apt install tumblr-gimmick
minus-squareThyTTY@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-21 year agoSorry no, I don’t think OP asked to have a Snap installed without her consent
minus-squarertxn@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 year ago> sudo apt install tumblr-gimmick > look inside > it's a snap > look closer > it's malware
Okay… uhm… consider me out of the loop here: What is a “gimmick account” and how is the first reply related to that?
A gimmick account is an account that has one (or more) gimmick or bit that the account does and only does. So in this case there were two (unofficial) distro accounts giving support terminal commands to install something from their appropriate repos
You have to install them from the AUR using :
yay -S tumblr-gimmick-gitDon’t do that. You can install them from the Ubuntu repos.
Sorry no, I don’t think OP asked to have a Snap installed without her consent