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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

#41 Post by stevepusser »

Root's got its own KDE configuration, so you need to run systemsettings5 as root and change its appearance there. I suggest something shockingly garish to remind you that you're root.
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Re: Does gdebi ( the gdebi-gtk GUI) work for anybody on Bust

#42 Post by debian121212 »

stevepusser wrote:I got deepin-deb-installer to work on MX 19 alpha, so we can use that if we can't figure out the gdebi issue. It only pulls in a couple extra megabytes of packages.
Thanks for pointing this out.

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

#43 Post by efrpcabo »

For me, in Debian 10 Buster 64 bit XFCE, with XFCE 4.14 through MX backports, Gdebi launches but doesn't work.
I had to use dpkg -i from terminal.

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

#44 Post by stevepusser »

It's the same issue with gdebi in Debian that the whole thread has been about from the start! Unless you want to emphasize that it's not fixed...
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Re: Does gdebi ( the gdebi-gtk GUI) work for anybody on Bust

#45 Post by CwF »

Ya well, as stated earlier, working for me!

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

#46 Post by @ttila »

It is a workaround: right click-->open with-->gdebi. Works for me :mrgreen:

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

#47 Post by NFT5 »

Well, that's interesting. The exact opposite of what everybody else seems to have experienced.

Maybe you could share what you've done to make this work.

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

#48 Post by stevepusser »

NFT5 wrote:Well, that's interesting. The exact opposite of what everybody else seems to have experienced.

Maybe you could share what you've done to make this work.
Probably just run Stretch... :P
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Re: Does gdebi ( the gdebi-gtk GUI) work for anybody on Bust

#49 Post by zyga64 »

This is what I did:

1. Created file 'gdebi-pkexec' in /usr/bin with following contents:

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pkexec gdebi-gtk $1
2. Modified /usr/share/applications/gdebi.desktop file (only line which starts with Exec=)

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Exec=gdebi-pkexec %f
Works fine :)

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

#50 Post by @ttila »

stevepusser wrote:
NFT5 wrote:Well, that's interesting. The exact opposite of what everybody else seems to have experienced.

Maybe you could share what you've done to make this work.
Probably just run Stretch... :P
No, i've always used testing and i never edited anything to get gdebi working!! i use lxqt

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

#51 Post by JeSuisFlaneur »

I had to enter the OS (not User) password. Then it installed.

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

#52 Post by pcdoctor01 »

NFT5 wrote:I have two Buster installations.

On XFCE gdebi works fine if you start it from the menu, but crashes if started by right clicking on a .deb file.

On KDE it won't start at all.
Interesting.
Didn't know it would work if you run gdebi from the start menu.
I've been installing debs from the command line but I prefer right clicking the deb file myself.
Thanks for the tip!

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

#53 Post by ticojohn »

NFT5 wrote:I have two Buster installations.

On XFCE gdebi works fine if you start it from the menu, but crashes if started by right clicking on a .deb file.

On KDE it won't start at all.
I was having problems with gdebi and read this post. Works on my XFCE installation as you have described. Thanks.
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