After successful installation, Package Installer window reports "Error" status

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

Binary package hint: gdebi

gdebi 0.1.6ubuntu1, Ubuntu 6.10

When gdebi has finished installing a package, the "Status:" text for the package changes from "All dependencies are satisfied" to "Error: conflicts with the installed package 'name-of-package'". This is pretty misleading: it could lead people to think that the package hasn't been installed when it actually has.

Instead the status text should perhaps be one of these:
* "Successfully installed" (if installed in the current gdebi session)
* "Already installed" (if installed in a previous gdebi session)
* "Newer version already installed" (with "Downgrade Package" and a confirmation alert, instead of "Install Package")
* "Older version currently installed" (with "Upgrade Package" instead of "Install Package").

[Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor)]

I will take a look at this later this evening.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

This is fixed in the version of feisty. It is only triggered by packages that have something like:
Provides: http-server
Conflicts: http-server
Replaces: http-server

Sorry that this bug is still there in edgy :/

Cheers,
 Michael

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

If you have a example package, I would like to get the url to make sure that the problem is really fixed.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Michael, the package I experienced this problem with was Opera. <http://www.opera.com/download/index.dml?opsys=Linux%20i386&lng=en&ver=9.10&platform=Linux%20i386&local=y>

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for this additional link.

This works fine now in feisty. The problem was:
 Conflicts: opera-static
 Replaces: opera-static
 Provides: opera-static, www-browser

in the deb. But the gdebi in feisty is cleverer about it.

Cheers,
 Michael

[Stephen Brandwood (sbrandwoo)]

Hi, this bug affects GDebi 0.8.1 when I install the latest nautilus-dropbox (0.7.0)

I am running Linux Mint 12 RC.

[Stephen Brandwood (sbrandwoo)]

If this bug has reappeared, should I open a new issue? Or can I reopen this issue somehow?