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gnome-app-install package

gnome-app-install doesn't install .deb file

Bug #20395 reported by Celso Pinto on 2005-08-25

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #9213: No action for deb files. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gnome-app-install (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Medium	Michael Vogt

Bug Description

In Breezy, application/x-debian-package files are opened with gnome-app-install
but gnome-app-install doesn't install the application. This is very, very
confusing to an end-user.

Why isn't there a point'n'click method for installed .deb files?

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote on 2005-08-26:

Thanks for your bugreport.

Work is being done in the <email address hidden>/apt--local-install--0
branch to make it easy to install local deb files. The problem is that the
current tools are not able to do proper dependency resoultion for local deb
files. Unfortunately this is not ready yet and will be a breezy+1 feature. The
mime-type setting to g-a-i is a bug though.

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Niran Babalola (niran) wrote on 2005-08-30:

I only see Archive Manager as an option for opening .debs. Has this been fixed
already, or have you tried opening a .deb with gnome-app-install before?

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Celso Pinto (cpinto) wrote on 2005-08-30:

(In reply to comment #2)
> I only see Archive Manager as an option for opening .debs. Has this been fixed
> already, or have you tried opening a .deb with gnome-app-install before?

I must say I had never noticed the option there until a few days ago went to
check what was available for opening .deb files.

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote on 2005-09-05:

Debs are open with file-roller on my system. I mark this bug a duplicate of the
general problem that debs can't be directly installed easily.

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 9213.