[Bug 1749728] Re: Installing packages fails when launched via Firefox ("open with")

[William Geiger]

after some sleep I have a couple of additional comments:

the /usr/share/application-registry/gdebi.applications file the mime
list should be comma-delimited or at least that is what they did in the
liboffice.application file (it is the only other file in the directory).

while the steps in my previous post got gdebi to work from Thunar &
Opera it DID NOT fix Firefox.

For firefox the only thing I have found to work was to set
Terminal=true in the gdebi.desktop file. If you have multiple copies of
this file make sure you change the one in:

/usr/share/applications/gdebi.desktop:

I have one at:

/home/johndoe/.local/share/applications/gdebi.desktop

it was created by trying to edit via the Whisker Menu

I have another one at:

/home/johndoe/.local/share/applications/gdebi.desktop

it was created by trying to edit via MenuLibre <sigh>

if anyone whishes to contact me they can do so @ whgiii3 at yahoo.com

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Title:
  Installing packages fails when launched via Firefox ("open with")

Status in gdebi package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  When launched from Firefox with the "open with" function, GDebi is
  unable to complete installing the package. The GDebi window does open,
  but after selecting to "install" the package the window closes and the
  package is left uninstalled.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
  Package: gdebi 0.9.5.7+nmu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-32.35-generic 4.13.13
  Uname: Linux 4.13.0-32-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.8-0ubuntu10
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: MATE
  Date: Thu Feb 15 17:08:31 2018
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-02-15 (0 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-MATE 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Alpha amd64 (20180215)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: gdebi
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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