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

[Sam Morris]

On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 14:49 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> 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.

I can't reproduce #453188 on my systems. Can you?

> 
> Cheers,
-- 
Sam Morris
http://robots.org.uk/

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