I wanna install yandex browser and I’m pretty sure it’s kinda nasty thing. I wanna install it for my mom as she’s fluent with russian and yandex has youtube audio translations for russians etc… don’t ask.
anyways, what’s the best way to install it? I mean it’s kinda scary to install it as it is, maybe there’s some recommended way to do so(so the GPU’s acceleration will still work etc)?
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This brings me back when using yandex browser as a OSINT browser lol good stuff. There is a “unofficial” appimage and flakpak version of it but I would be leary tbh with you.
There is two ways that I could think of doing it that don’t require virtual machine, the second would more of a setup. Either way would require you to create a new non sudor user for you’re “mother”.
One way you “might” be able to do this, I could have sworn I did this with a .deb file of some software back in the day but it wasn’t a browser.
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Make a local dir in the “mother” user account /
mkdir -p "$HOME/.local/yandex-browser" -
Download the .deb and instead of installing it system wide try extracting it. /
dpkg-deb -x yandex-browser.deb "$HOME/.local/yandex-browser
- Then find the binary is in the directory and launch it, then you would need to make a desktop shortcut for the command.
The other way would be installing the yandex browser in a Docker container and then after creating desktop shortcut that launches it with a x11 display.
I really don’t know why you dont just install a separate more trustable browser then yandex and install some kind of translate extension???
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Use a VM.
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