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by irusensei 1303 days ago
Not always. Lots of programs that do this might be targeted for intermediate users. Brew is the first thing that comes to mind.

I seem to recall a case of a certain application that uses curl to bash to install docker, docker-compose and finally create its containers. The problem lies with the fact that said script committed the mistakes of trying to pull docker from Docker repositories instead of using the one from the distro and also thinking $distro_based_on_ubuntu (I think it was Mint) is Ubuntu. A mess was made and I had to help some guy to fix it.