Custom web browser protocol to install from apt-get

[Derek Broughton]

Matthew East wrote:

> 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.

That didn't actually answer the question.  I've been running Dapper since
October, and hadn't seen any such thing.  If I click on a .deb, it opens
with Ark - one of the most useless actions I've ever seen...
-- 
derek