When I install a program as a tar.gz file, is it updated with the sudo apt update command? Or do I have to go another route for those installs? If so, what's the method used?
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No, generally speaking. But it depends on what is inside. A tar.gz is just a compressed archive like a zip file.
Apt only deals with Debs provided by a repository..
What sort of thing are you looking at here?
If it's an application that's been compiled from source code you don't update it, you download and compile the new version yourself.
If it's a driver, it *may* recompile a new module when there is a new kernel, but the actual code is not updated, you'd need to download a new version yourself.
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Okay, what about a browser such as the tor browser? Would I need do download the new version for every release that comes out? And also, would that mean that I would lose all of my bookmarks?Comment
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I don't know. The browser *may* update itself, you need to find out from them if it does so.Originally posted by Cincinnatus View Post
Firefox, for example, when run fro\m a tar file DOES self-update, but Mozilla themselves provides this functionality.
As to bookmarks, most likley no, as the actual user settings are probably in a dedicated directory in your home dir, separately from the application binaries.
Again, you need to see if Tor follows this standard or not. It might not. If it does keep this data inside the tor folder itself, it probably is just a matter of copying the bookmarks dir to the new one.Comment
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