Hi!
GPK should have shown you a message like "Backend does not support
action InstallFiles" - have you seen that message?
The info already tells you what is wrong: The apt backend of
PackageKit in Debian does not support this action right now. However,
the upcoming release of PackageKit will contain a *very* huge set of
improvements for aptcc, where one of them will be support for
InstallFiles(), so you should be able to install the package via GPK.
The other issue with GDebi you mention might be releated to multiarch
changes, but to be sure I'll take a closer look at it tomorrow :)
Cheers,
Matthias
2012/4/14 Ulsi Zugnam <ulsi...@gmail.com>:
> Package: gnome-packagekit
> Version: 3.4.0-2
> Severity: normal
> File: gpk
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> * What led up to the situation?
> I wanted to install chrome from Google. Downloaded google-chrome-
> stable_current_amd64.deb file provided by Google. My system is a hybrid
> wheezy/unstable configured with apt-pinning. I opened the file with the option
> "Open with Software Install" from Nautilus.
>
> * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
> ineffective)?
> Opening the file with "Open with Software Install" opens/uses Gnome-packagekit
> to install the google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb. Packagekit exits with
> two identical messages: One from gpk-dbus-service and another from
> Gpk-install-
> local-file
> GDBus.Error:org.gtk.GDBus.UnmappedGError.Quark._pk_5ftransaction_5ferror.Code4:
> SimulateInstallFiles not supported by backend
>
> GDBus.Error:org.gtk.GDBus.UnmappedGError.Quark._pk_5ftransaction_5ferror.Code4:
> SimulateInstallFiles not supported by backend
>
> I decided to install package with Gdebi. Gdebi installed package, but failed
> to
> create menu icon in list of applications under Gnome 3 menu.
> * What was the outcome of this action?
> I had to manually add a link using alacarte to point to /opt/google/google-
> chrome
> * What outcome did you expect instead?
> I expected gnome-packagekit to install package without error messages but it
> may be the way Google packages their deb file. The deb file installs program
> in
> /opt/ directory. In Ubuntu, package installs correctly and menu icon is shown
> in unity and gnome-shell desktop environments.
>
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: wheezy/sid
> APT prefers unstable
> APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (700, 'testing'), (600, 'stable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
> Versions of packages gnome-packagekit depends on:
> ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.10.0-3
> ii gnome-packagekit-data 3.4.0-2
> ii gnome-settings-daemon 3.2.2-3
> ii libatk1.0-0 2.4.0-2
> ii libc6 2.13-27
> ii libcairo-gobject2 1.12.0-2
> ii libcairo2 1.12.0-2
> ii libcanberra-gtk3-0 0.28-4
> ii libcanberra0 0.28-4
> ii libdbus-1-3 1.5.12-1
> ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.98-1
> ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-3.1
> ii libfreetype6 2.4.9-1
> ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.26.0-2
> ii libglib2.0-0 2.32.0-4
> ii libgtk-3-0 3.2.3-1
> ii libnotify4 0.7.5-1
> ii libpackagekit-glib2-14 0.7.3-2
> ii libpango1.0-0 1.30.0-1
> ii libsqlite3-0 3.7.11-2
> ii libupower-glib1 0.9.15-3
> ii libx11-6 2:1.4.4-4
> ii packagekit 0.7.3-2
>
> gnome-packagekit recommends no packages.
>
> gnome-packagekit suggests no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
>
>
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