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gdebi package

  1. Bug #1946499
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 1946499

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Norbert (nrbrtx) wrote : Re: installation Discord with Gdebi shows "dpkg: error: unable to read filedescriptor flags for <package status and progress file descriptor>: Bad file descriptor" in gdebi terminal

There is something wrong with gdebi-gtk.

Discord package installed normally using CLI:

```
$ sudo gdebi ~/Downloads/discord-0.0.16.deb
[sudo] password for i:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Reading state information... Done

Chat for Communities and Friends
 Discord is the easiest way to communicate over voice, video, and text. Chat,
 hang out, and stay close with your friends and communities.
Do you want to install the software package? [y/N]:y
/usr/bin/gdebi:113: FutureWarning: Possible nested set at position 1
  c = findall("[[(](\S+)/\S+[])]", msg)[0].lower()
Selecting previously unselected package discord.
(Reading database ... 457359 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack discord-0.0.16.deb ...
Unpacking discord (0.0.16) ...
Setting up discord (0.0.16) ...
Processing triggers for mailcap (3.69ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.36.0-1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.26-1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.5+21.10.20210710-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
```

but it is not user-friendly. GUI way is simpler and more friendly.