Notes & Discussion 🔼

Testing environment 🔼

• (msi) I set up a testing machine with a rather minimal Devuan ASCII
• only standard tools in tasksel
• xorg (as iridium is not a console browser, but a graphical app, we'll need X)

About the original instruction on Iridium's website 🔼

• (msi) Now, the instrctions on how to add the repo and install the packages (on https://iridiumbrowser.de/downloads/debian) are just given in the form of commands to enter at the shell prompt and not being explained. And even to people who occasionally use the shell, they might not be easy to understand. Also, the iridum devs assume you have sudo installed (for gaining root access), which I notoriously don't have on my system.

• (msi) For all these reasons, I've chosen to modify the instructions in two ways:
• using su instead of sudo where superuser privileges are required
• Also, I decided to go for a more primitive way of adding the repo than the one presented on the iridium website, so it is easier to understand what we are actually doing.