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by saghm 2502 days ago
This seems a little different to me than most `curl | bash` scripts, as it's trying to integrate with the system package manager. Not trying to imply the same security implications don't apply, but there's not really a way to integrate with them without requiring root, and it seems like the entire purpose of this is to integrate with the package manager, which gives you things like an easy way to get updates. (From looking further down the instructions, it looks like this is just setting up a PPA on debian-based distros; I'd personally just paste the config into a file myself, but realistically the security concerns are the same, since I think most package managers give the ability to execute custom code as part of the install process, and it'll be running as root when that code is executed)