[mythtv-users] Getting started with Myth installation

[Kevin Kuphal]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Mike Perkins <mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk
> wrote:

> Johnny Russ wrote:
> >
> > It seems they have even made this unnecasary now. They have a webpage
> where
> > you can just click on a link to a php script that will get the
> installation
> > process going on an existing Ubuntu machine:
> > http://www.mythbuntu.org/existing-ubuntu. This should install all of the
> > packages you need and it will take care of most of the configuration you
> > would need to do also.
> >
> Jesus! If I click on a link in some random website, it upgrades my machine?
> While I do not doubt the sincerity of the Mythbuntu crew, just imagine if
> any
> Tom, Dick or Vladimir can do that to some machine anywhere on the network,
> with
> any software of their choice, while I just think I am looking at some
> innocuous
> web page. How the heck do I guard against that?


Calm down.  The page links to an apt:// link which will install the package
if you click on it.  No different than downloading an executable.  What
happens when you click on it depends entirely on what your browser is set to
do with those link types and file types

Kevin
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