No it's not that clicking the .deb doesn't fire up gdebi-gtk (it does), it's that gdebi-gtk crashes whilst installing the .deb throwing the error:-
dpkg: error: unable to read filedescriptor flags for <package status and progress file descriptor>: Bad file descriptor Changing (or dropping) the %f option makes no difference :( -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1756238 Title: gdebi-gtk broken in 18.04 error: unable to read filedescriptor flags To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdebi/+bug/1756238/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs