Gdebi Problem on antiX-19.5_386-base

[Member Len E.]

When gdebi is invoked from the System menu and
a downloaded package is selected with gdebi
and the install command is given, the installation
does not proceed.

From a terminal session, in directory /usr/bin,
the command sudo ./gdebi-gtk starts gdebi up
normally, and a package install proceeds
normally to completion.

No error messages appear on the terminal.

Len E.

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recommend: don’t use gdebi. It often has problems installing dependencies.

Instead, from commandline:
sudo apt install /path/to/debfile

or use this “debinstaller” script (it provides a gui): gitlab.com/antix-contribs/contribs-goodies/-/blob/master/bin/debinstaller

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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I thought I had removed gdebi from the iso.
It causes more trouble than it is worth.

Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.

antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.

[Member ModdIt]

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skidoo wrote: recommend: don’t use gdebi. It often has problems installing dependencies.

Instead, from commandline: sudo apt install /path/to/debfile

Easiest and lazy way.

Works fine in ICEWM: enter sudo apt install then just drag package to the console holding left mouse button.
The full path will be automagicaly entered.

Will work with multiple debs but not tested with Libreoffice direct download which is a huge list, 50 plus debs
as a guess. Would do that with dpkg.

For UngoogledChromium first package must be common, next ungoogled chromium, rest order should not matter.
Having to install in the right order is not uncommon, done wrong install just fails with missing dependancy
error.

[Member PPC]

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anticapitalista wrote:

I thought I had removed gdebi from the iso.
It causes more trouble than it is worth.

I agree 100%. Gdebi should be removed, because it causes trouble many times. But I also think more “normie” users need a GUI to perform all trivial tasks, and would recommend to replace Gdebi with any other GUI app or script (debinstaller is a simple GUI that performs “sudo apt install” in a very similar fashion to the way antiX-updater performs “sudo apt update…”- it’s only dependencies are yad, dpkg-deb, apt and sed )

P.

Edit: if you end up inserting debinstaller in antiX (ex, via antix-goodies) please let me know, so I can remove it from FT10 and avoid any conflict…

• This reply was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by PPC.

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ModdIt wrote:

enter sudo apt install then just drag package to the console holding left mouse button.
The full path will be automagicaly entered

Agree, this is the most handsome and cleanest way.

But I installed the debinstaller script from PPC already a while ago, tested it and it works very well and without problems.So it’s helpfull if someone likes a GUI.

[Member Len E.]

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Hi skidoo:

Thank you for the advice on sudo apt install and
debinstaller. They both work fine.

I’ve noticed that debinstaller requires a full
path specification for the debfile, so that it’s
marginally easier to have a copy of the script
in the same directory as the debfile. Then
the file specification is simply ./debfile.

Thanks again !
Len E.

[Member PPC]

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@Len E. – debinstaller was writer to be used from inside a graphical file manager (associate .deb files with debinstaller’s script and they will always be opened using it).
If you are using the terminal, probably it’s better to stick with “sudo apt install …”

Debinstaller is officially available for antiX, it’s one of the scripts included in the ft10-transformation package. It installs a little over 3mb of files if the user is running antiX Full – usually not a big deal – but since you are using “base”, probably it’s best to stick to using the script directly or (if ft10-transformation installs) it probably install lots of packages (I never tested that- I never even ran any other version other than antiX full, since my antiX 16 days)

P.

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