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Does gdebi ( the gdebi-gtk GUI) work for anybody on Buster?

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Re: Does gdebi ( the gdebi-gtk GUI) work for anybody on Bust

#16 Post by pcdoctor01 »

I started to post this issue here.
Hopefully they fix this error soon.
I'm using XFCE

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Subject: Gdebi does not install deb packages in Buster
Gdebi does not install deb packages in Buster.
When clicking on install, the program exits.

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Re: Does gdebi ( the gdebi-gtk GUI) work for anybody on Bust

#17 Post by stevepusser »

Some MX users say that changing the /usr/share/applications/gdebi.desktop file to use "gksu" in the exec line:

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Exec=gdebi-gtk %f
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Exec=gksu gdebi-gtk %f
fixes the crashing, but you have to have a real root account for that, I think--not sure. MX gives you both sudo and root accounts. You might be successful with gksudo instead, and need that installed, also--though I thought I read here that Debian is deprecating those in favor of pkexec, which gdebi-gtk was modified to use in Buster, apparently not completely successfully.

I remember that Debian had a broken gdebi for years back in the Lenny or Etch era...
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Re: Does gdebi ( the gdebi-gtk GUI) work for anybody on Bust

#18 Post by CwF »

Except gksu is gone? I spent some time purging gksu and revamping authority on my 4 images as I moved them to buster. The change in behavior I mentioned may have started with that purge. All 4 images have a few packages from sid that were all installed with gdebi = so gdebi does install packages into buster just fine.

On point is the method of use.
Execute from the menu with a gdebi policy file and navigate to the deb with gdebi's open dialog and it works as expected.
Execute from a file manager and the permissions sequence fails and gdebi exits.

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Re: Does gdebi ( the gdebi-gtk GUI) work for anybody on Bust

#19 Post by Head_on_a_Stick »

stevepusser wrote:Some MX users say that changing the /usr/share/applications/gdebi.desktop file to use "gksu" in the exec line:

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Exec=gdebi-gtk %f
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Exec=gksu gdebi-gtk %f
fixes the crashing
I really don't think that's a good idea, the GUI already has one bug that we have found so running the entire thing with elevated privileges would just expose any others in a far more severe fashion.

I'll submit a bug report this weekend and see if they can fix this properly. I'm so glad Debian has debug repositories, I had to rebuild glic for an Arch bug report...
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Re: Does gdebi ( the gdebi-gtk GUI) work for anybody on Bust

#20 Post by pcdoctor01 »

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:
stevepusser wrote:
I'll submit a bug report this weekend and see if they can fix this properly. I'm so glad Debian has debug repositories, I had to rebuild glic for an Arch bug report...
Thank you!

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Re: Does gdebi ( the gdebi-gtk GUI) work for anybody on Bust

#21 Post by Head_on_a_Stick »

Bug report is in:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo ... bug=931986

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Re: Does gdebi ( the gdebi-gtk GUI) work for anybody on Bust

#22 Post by Wheelerof4te »

It failed for me in Cinnamon (couldn't bare that desktop so I switched to GNOME again) when I tried installing a .deb file.
I figured it may be because it wasn't configured correctly and just installed that .deb with apt. But I guess it was a bug.

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#23 Post by stevepusser »

It turns out that in MX, our gksu calls a custom "mx-pkexec" to elevate privileges, so it seems we don't hopefully lose any security by using that workaround. I sent up a modified gdebi build to fix the problem.
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Re: Does gdebi ( the gdebi-gtk GUI) work for anybody on Bust

#24 Post by miks »

I use KDE and have found that gdebi will not work when invoked from Dolphin. Because of the problems caused by not being able to use Dolphin as root anymore, I installed pcmanfm-qt for occasions when I need to use a file manager as root and gdebi works normally from a root pcmanfm-qt.
stevepusser wrote:-I actually use a KDE service menu in Dolphin to install debs myself with apt,


Is there a way to add this service menu for Dolphin in KDE Buster?

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Re: Does gdebi ( the gdebi-gtk GUI) work for anybody on Bust

#25 Post by sunrat »

miks wrote:I use KDE and have found that gdebi will not work when invoked from Dolphin. Because of the problems caused by not being able to use Dolphin as root anymore, I installed pcmanfm-qt for occasions when I need to use a file manager as root and gdebi works normally from a root pcmanfm-qt.
stevepusser wrote:-I actually use a KDE service menu in Dolphin to install debs myself with apt,


Is there a way to add this service menu for Dolphin in KDE Buster?
Yes. Steve made a package for it but I was unable to find it with a quick search. I'm sure he will be along to point you in the right direction.
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#26 Post by stevepusser »

The mx17 version works fine in Buster, but I will build a mx19 version so it shows up in the repo once we release the public MX 19 beta. It does require sudo be enabled to work, though.

http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/pool/main/k/k ... stalldebs/

I added an option to check a file's checksum, since the two things can be related. You can also install multiple debs in one go.

As for not being able to get a root Dolphin, this should allow you to open one, among several other root actions, since it uses pkexec to boost the privileges: http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/pool/main/r/r ... rvicemenu/
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Re: Does gdebi ( the gdebi-gtk GUI) work for anybody on Bust

#27 Post by NFT5 »

stevepusser wrote:As for not being able to get a root Dolphin, this should allow you to open one, among several other root actions, since it uses pkexec to boost the privileges: http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/pool/main/r/r ... rvicemenu/
In KDE Buster this won't install, citing dependency issues.

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Re: Does gdebi ( the gdebi-gtk GUI) work for anybody on Bust

#28 Post by miks »

stevepusser wrote:The mx17 version works fine in Buster, but I will build a mx19 version so it shows up in the repo once we release the public MX 19 beta. It does require sudo be enabled to work, though.

http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/pool/main/k/k ... stalldebs/
Thanks Stevo, this has installed, but when I tried using it to install the service menu, it came back with:

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[sudo] password for mike: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'kde-servicemenu-rootactions' instead of '/home/mike/Desktop/kde-servicemenu-rootactions_2.7.3+p8+git20160617.0159-1mx17+1_all.deb'
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 kde-servicemenu-rootactions : Depends: kde-baseapps-bin but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

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Presumably the same problem mentioned by NFT5.

Strangely, there is no kde-baseapps-bin package for Buster or Bullseye, though it is available in Sid.

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#29 Post by L_V »

miks wrote:Strangely, there is no kde-baseapps-bin package for Buster or Bullseye, though it is available in Sid.
Only debport for arm64
https://packages.debian.org/sid/kde-baseapps-bin

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#30 Post by stevepusser »

It seems they need some reworking of the dependencies, so let me see what I can do.
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#31 Post by L_V »

The problem is qt4 dependency, for now.

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#32 Post by stevepusser »

OK, these seem to be working now: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1vKhVl ... lJaZJx2_bd

Except opening a root Dolphin results in a window with no icons at all... :( But at least you can use the other root actions to work around the need to have a root Dolphin while we try to figure that out.
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#33 Post by stevepusser »

And apparently rootactions needs a patch for the case when you're running Dolphin outside of KDE (like me most of the time), so here's another update for that one

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1O7-fL ... xcKucoWiku
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Re: Does gdebi ( the gdebi-gtk GUI) work for anybody on Bust

#34 Post by sunrat »

Redacted this post as it's irrelevant after my next post.
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#35 Post by sunrat »

stevepusser wrote:And apparently rootactions needs a patch for the case when you're running Dolphin outside of KDE (like me most of the time), so here's another update for that one

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1O7-fL ... xcKucoWiku
I just installed this in a fresh Buster netinstall with kde-plasma-desktop added. Seems to work fine and opening Dolphin as root shows icons.
Bravo Stevo! 8)
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