Comment 16 for bug 1854588
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| Lantizia (lantizia) wrote Re: gdebi-gtk calls pkexec inappropriately | #16 |
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@Patrick Fasano (kc9jud)
I've just made a new blank VM, downloaded a fresh copy of the Ubuntu MATE 20.04.3 amd64 ISO... and installed it (the only choices I made of note were.. picking a Minimal install with 3rd party firmware/
I can not confirm your findings.
I tried going to these sites to download their 64-bit .deb packages (follow the most obvious links to download on each site)...
- nomachine.com
- teamviewer.com
- skype.com
And found that whether you...
a) allow Firefox to save to disk and afterwards open the .deb from within Firefox (either from the Downloads button on the toolbar, or within the Library window of Firefox)... or...
b) ask Firefox to 'Open with' the 'GDebi Package Installer (default)' upon it finishing the download...
You get the same issue where GDebi opens but the 'Install Package' button makes GDebi instantly close.
However (just as before), if you go to your Downloads folder in an actual file manager (outside of a web browser like Firefox or Chrome) and open the .deb... then the 'Install Package' button functions normally.
Nothing has really changed with this bug at all... I'm pretty sure I first noticed this way back in 14.04 (so this bug is now over 6 years old in reality) and it's one of the worse experiences a first time user of Linux could have.
Especially when you consider most have come from a world where a .exe or a .dmg (when downloaded)... "Just works".