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.
Just as an addendum to your answer. In the command writing to
mullvad.list
the| sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mullvad.list
is using two helpful linux utilities to modify the command. The first is the|
which is called a pipe and connects the text output of one program to the text input of another. The pipe is connecting the output of echo which simply prints a string, in this case composed of the outputs of several other commands to the programtee
. Tee which is given admin privileges by thesudo
takes an input stream and splits it between two files. In this case those aremullvad.list
and since no other was providedstdout
the output pipeline of the terminal running the command.EDIT:
In the interest of further completeness. Another utility used in those commands is the command substitution operator of
sh
. So when the terminal is interpretting text$(some command)
gets substituted out for the text output by the command in the parentheses. It is another common way of connecting commands on the shell to allow for more flexible and powerful commands.