Custom web browser protocol to install from apt-get

[Matthew East]

On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 23:38 -0400, Derek Broughton wrote:
> 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...

I suppose the question was "how is this being taken care of for dapper?"
The answer is by installing a program by default which permits you to
double click on deb files to install them. To try it yourself, install
the package "gdebi".

Matt
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