Hellfire103@lemmy.ca to GNU+Linux Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 8 months agoIt's heating up over on Tumblrlemmy.caimagemessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down10
arrow-up19arrow-down1imageIt's heating up over on Tumblrlemmy.caHellfire103@lemmy.ca to GNU+Linux Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square10fedilink
minus-squareNorgur@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 months 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-up2·8 months 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-up2·edit-28 months agoYou have to install them from the AUR using : yay -S tumblr-gimmick-git
minus-squaresuodrazah@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 months agoDon’t do that. You can install them from the Ubuntu repos. Sudo apt install tumblr-gimmick
minus-squareRainb0wSkeppy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 months agosh: Sudo: command not found
minus-squareThyTTY@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-28 months agoSorry no, I don’t think OP asked to have a Snap installed without her consent
minus-squarertxn@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-28 months 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.
sh: Sudo: command not foundSorry no, I don’t think OP asked to have a Snap installed without her consent