Visiting https://quarto.org/docs/get-started/ with a browser which the website identifies as running on Linux results in being shown a large button like object to click to "Download Quarto CLI  1.1.251 (Linux)" The link goes to a .deb package for x86.

Elsewhere on https://quarto.org/docs/get-started/  a .deb package for x86 is offered for download and is labelled as being for "Linux". 

Many, popular, widely used, Linux distributions do not use .deb packages. As such .deb packages should not be labelled as being for "Linux" or prominently promoted to all Linux users as being what they need.

Popular, widely used, non-x86 Linux distributions exist, e.g. Raspberry Pi OS.

A better approach would be to offer the tarball by default for Linux users, clearly labelled as being for x86, and let people using x86 Linux distributions which do use .deb packages find and download the .deb if they want to.



dragonstyle
2022-09-22T10:52:02Z
mike-somethingnooneelsehasusedyet
documentation
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.deb package wrongly labelled as "Linux" and offered by default to Linux users
https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/2550