Bug#469076: gdebi is not the default handler for debian binary packages

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Mon Mar 10 13:49:48 UTC 2008


block 469076 by 453188
thanks

Le dimanche 02 mars 2008 à 21:54 +0000, Sam Morris a écrit :
> I recently installed lenny from scratch (on an Asus eeepc). I noticed
> that, although gdebi was installed by default, it was not the default
> handler for debian binary package files. Instead, file-roller was
> chosen, which left the user of the system nonplussed when he wanted to
> install skype by double-clicking on the downloaded .deb file.
> 
> Bug filed against gnome-vfs because it contains
> /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/defaults.list which seems to determine the default
> file handlers for various types of files.

Indeed, but this cannot happen as long as gdebi is so buggy it cannot be
used at all.

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