Hi, * pham...@bluewin.ch <pham...@bluewin.ch> [210405 14:21]: > It will soon be 1 year and a half that your software is bugged, would you be > kind enough to do something to make it finally work correctly ? > Regards.
This form of communication does not help. Right now there is no real maintainer for gdebi, so no one is really looking after this package. If you want this bug fixed, please provide more details on the crash and the workarounds that have been tried. The python backtrace might be useful, for example. For the next person wondering, the patch applied by MX Linux is attached (basically runs gdebi under gksu, probably side-stepping some permission issue). Chris
diff -Nru gdebi-0.9.5.7+nmu4/data/gdebi.applications gdebi-0.9.5.7+nmu3+mx19/data/gdebi.applications --- gdebi-0.9.5.7+nmu4/data/gdebi.applications 2021-01-13 18:45:14.000000000 +0000 +++ gdebi-0.9.5.7+nmu3+mx19/data/gdebi.applications 2019-07-14 01:36:50.000000000 +0000 @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ gdebi - command=gdebi-gtk + command=gksu gdebi-gtk name=Install Package (gdebi) can_open_multiple_files=false expects_uris=false diff -Nru gdebi-0.9.5.7+nmu4/data/gdebi.desktop.in gdebi-0.9.5.7+nmu3+mx19/data/gdebi.desktop.in --- gdebi-0.9.5.7+nmu4/data/gdebi.desktop.in 2021-01-13 18:45:14.000000000 +0000 +++ gdebi-0.9.5.7+nmu3+mx19/data/gdebi.desktop.in 2019-07-14 01:36:50.000000000 +0000 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ _Name=GDebi Package Installer _GenericName=Package Installer _Comment=Install and view software packages -Exec=gdebi-gtk %f +Exec=gksu gdebi-gtk %f Icon=gnome-mime-application-x-deb Terminal=false Type=Application diff -Nru gdebi-0.9.5.7+nmu4/data/gdebi-kde.desktop.in gdebi-0.9.5.7+nmu3+mx19/data/gdebi-kde.desktop.in --- gdebi-0.9.5.7+nmu4/data/gdebi-kde.desktop.in 2021-01-13 18:45:14.000000000 +0000 +++ gdebi-0.9.5.7+nmu3+mx19/data/gdebi-kde.desktop.in 2019-07-14 01:36:50.000000000 +0000 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ _Name=GDebi Package Installer _GenericName=Package Installer _Comment=Install and view software packages -Exec=gdebi-kde +Exec=gksu gdebi-kde Icon=application-x-deb Terminal=false Type=Application
