Chapter 4.  Install packages not in the distro repository
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Chapter 4.  Install packages not in the distro repository

  1. firefox

    To install Firefox from a deb package, see firefox instructions

    To install from flatpak: sudo apt install flatpak

    flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

    flatpak install flathub.org org.mozilla.firefox

  2. emacs

    If the distro version of emacs is out of date, see Appendix F, Build emacs .

  3. procs

    Download from github

    sudo unzip procs-v0.14.4-x86_64-linux.zip sudo cp procs /usr/local/bin

  4. Chromium

    Ideally, install Chromium from something besides Snap.

    Configure Chromium for Wayland

    1. Go to chrome://flags

    2. Search "Preferred Ozone platform"

    3. Set it to "Wayland"

    4. Restart