When clicking a .deb, file-roller gets launched ( instead of an installer for .deb )

[Coeur Noir]

Hi,

On Ubuntu 20.04 ( default flavor, and Budgie, maybe other else )

when clicking on a .deb it's file-roller that gets launched by default, instead of an expected .deb installer ( be it through gnome-software-local-file.desktop or any package-manager ).

Some references :
⋅ https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/deb-packages-open-via-zip-file-manager-by-default/3963
⋅ https://itsfoss.com/cant-install-deb-file-ubuntu/

So this bug already affects many users.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1873658), so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

If budgie doesn't use snap-store or the default ubuntu list then the issue would need to be reported to them to apply a similar fix to their default applications definition

[Coeur Noir (coeur-noir)]

AFAIK Budgie comes with « software » installed by default.

Does it matter if it's gnome-software with snap plugin rather than snap-store ?

[fossfreedom (fossfreedom)]

UB inherits desktop-file-utils

I'm guessing here - the debian/defaults.list points to the snap-store ubuntu-software.

But for people who dont have the snap store version (i.e. installed gnome-software manually and/or removed the snap) there is no corresponding entry for gnome-software-local

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

it's not a bug in file-roller, the default association is not defined by individual softwares, please reverting the status there

@fossfreedem, the way the defaults.list work there needs to be one default defined, if Ubuntu Budgie has a different applications selection than Ubuntu then it should provide an override or customized default list matching what is installed

[Coeur Noir (coeur-noir)]

it's not a bug in file-roller → ok now I understand why it was invalid → sorry.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the bug is invalid for file-roller but it needs to be reported against the desktop you are using, @fossfreedom comment there so he's probably aware of the issue and able to help reassigning to the right component

[fossfreedom (fossfreedom)]

tracked here https://github.com/UbuntuBudgie/budgie-desktop-environment/issues/189

should be SRU'd back to 20.04 once fully tested

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package budgie-desktop-environment - 0.14.0

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budgie-desktop-environment (0.14.0) groovy; urgency=medium

  * Enforce asking when deleting and moving to trash so that
    inadvertent deleting files is not possible
  * Remove shutdown/logout/restart/suspend desktop overrides
  * Turn off gedit highlight since this is broken with dark
    themes
  * Install budgie-desktop defaults.list to ensure
    our standard applications are associated with the
    correct file-extensions - this overrides ubuntu's
    defaults.list which has different apps and thus
    wrong defaults (LP: #1889317)

 -- David Mohammed <email address hidden> Wed, 29 Jul 2020 21:02:08 +0100