Custom web browser protocol to install from apt-get

Matthew East mdke at ubuntu.com
Fri Mar 24 09:15:53 GMT 2006


On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 19:21 -0400, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Jason Taylor wrote:
> 
> >> a) A simple gui deb installer for 3rd party software that isn't in any
> >> official repository.
> >>      Note: I agree that installing directly from the web is a bad idea,
> >>      but
> >> you shouldn't have to resort to the console to do it.
> > Agree im pretty sure this is being taken care of for dapper
> 
> How?  I haven't seen such a thing.  I still use wget to get the odd .deb and
> dpkg to install it.  Such a toy would be really useful for geeks like me
> who like to live on the edge :-)

You will be able to double click on .deb files to install them in
dapper.

Matt
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