gdebi should have a "refresh" option.

[Vadim Peretokin]

Hello,

I frequently use gdebi to install packages from getdeb.net, and sometimes a single piece of software has two packages, which you have to install in the right order. However, if you mess up the order, gdebi will just tell you "<other package> is not satisfiable", with no option to refresh. So if I do install the other needed package, I have to close the first gdebi, and open it again.

So it would be nice if you could have it "refresh" the deps with a button.

[Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin)]

(this 5 a day campaign really is working!)

[Endolith (endolith)]

When GDebi is missing a dependency, it becomes unresponsive. The "Install package" button becomes grayed-out. Instead, it should remain clickable and change to "Retry".

If multi-package installation is implemented (Bug 37649), this will be a moot point for many packages (since you will try to install the dependency and then it will open in the same window and take care of both).

But it might still be relevant for some cases where the dependency is in a repo that the user has since added to sources.list, for instance.

[MCMic (mcmic)]

I really need this feature too.
It doesn't seems complicated.

[Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin)]

Thanks a ton!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gdebi - 0.4.0

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gdebi (0.4.0) jaunty; urgency=low

  [ Michael Vogt ]
  * i18n fixes (LP: #313890), thanks to Gabor Kelemen
  * merged da.po translation update (thanks to Joe Dalton)
  * GDebi/DebPackage.py:
    - better error string for versionized dependencies (LP: #160218)
    - do not crash on packages with no architecture field but show
      a error instead (LP: #261266)
    - fix improper checking for reverse conflicts/strict dependencies
      (LP: #312022)
  * GDebi/GDebi.py:
    - fix filelist display for debs with utf-8 chars (LP: #257597)
    - add refresh action (LP: #156214)
    - tell the user what is being installed
  * data/gdebi.glade:
    - make the status text selectable (LP: #50212)
    - Open is now "Open..." (LP:# 90010)
  * unify the utf8 methods and deal properly with non-utf8 input
    (fixes crash in gdebi-kde, LP: #149893)

  [ Harald Sitter ]
  * Fix gdebi-kde icon (application-x-deb)
  * Change install path of gdebi-kde desktop file to applications/kde4

 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:39:52 +0100