Software Center is a terrible deb installer

Bug #747731 reported by Eric Appleman
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: software-center

If I download a deb and run it, Software Center will open. This is problematic since USC can take time to load and then even longer to bring up the package page.

Please make deb installation easier or bring back gdebi.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: software-center 3.1.25
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.40-genusername 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Apr 1 16:03:04 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20101229)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: software-center
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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