5.0.0f1? that is a puzzle for me. Be careful with the earlier releases, they will roll back your distro’s installation into nothing. They act like a hole where everything in your computer gets sucked out. Only way I will install a unity dep package is if I unpack it myself because of what it did to me. I get scared of the other dep files from other people.
I tested out
unity-editor-installer-5.4.3f1-3+20161125.sh
and it’s working. I had to install npm.
The is how the package manager works in Linux Mint and also Ubuntu. They will automatically install any dependency. I’m surprise you didn’t know that, or did you?
And yes the problem with the oldest releases listed on this page, is they will start uninstalling your OS.
Not a clue – I found out some 12-15 years ago that Debian (and Debian/APT-based distros) just aren’t my cup of tea. I’m running Gentoo/portage where the package repository is a bunch of python scripts declaring dependencies and build/install instructions. The .deb format is pretty alien here.
I am talking with a linux professional. I have lived in a linux world where everything is done for me. Even if I have to trouble shoot, I only need to use google search. (I can’t use linux in any other way, and bill gates scares me.)