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(Get the code!)
Well, in fact I think it is "trivial to fix", it is just a question on whether we want users being able to install easily whatever they want or not.
I think it'd be easy to just pop a dialog informing the user on this matter and the possible security issues, and allowing him to decide whether to give permissions to the file or not. Once he is informed, it's up to him to do it or not. But keeping it difficult for newcomers so that they forget about installing it this way is a bad idea, in my opinion... they have always done it in their previous OS, and not being able to do it in Ubuntu will be a negative point in their mind.
So the way, in my opinion, is: make it easy, but educating the user.