Comment 2 for bug 1398537

I tried it recently with xubuntu 18.04.1 and the gui still crashes.
I uninstalled gdebi and went back to dpkg from the command line.
I will try again on the next LTS release.

On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 at 08:30, Paul White <email address hidden> wrote:

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> ** Changed in: gdebi (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
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> Title:
> gdebi 0.9.5.3 crashing
>
> Status in gdebi package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Using gdebi 0.9.5.3-ubuntu2
> and gdebi-core 0.9.5.3-ubuntu2
> on Trusty 14.10
>
> I tried upgrading the two packages to the 14.10 versions using dpkg
> and they installed fine but the same crash happened.
>
> I'm not sure what is going on. I right click an application (like the
> official release debi of Teamviewer) and gdebi starts up, begins its
> scan, then terminates. I think it is failing during its scan for
> dependencies.
>
> I tried reporting this using ubuntu-bug in a terminal but that didn't
> work so I am not sure how to get all the required supported
> applications.
>
> Is anyone else experiencing this crash? Suggestions? I don't use gdebi
> much but it is more convenient that firing up a terminal window and
> typing dpkg everytime I want to install a package.
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