If I want to install a software package from a simple rpm file "the GUI way" on a CentOS 7 system, what am I supposed to do? If I open the file in the desktop, or alternatively, click on a link to a package in the browser and tell it to use the default app, gnome-software (I think) opens, but it just displays the message

Sorry, something went wrong

I mean, really? Isn't this something that should just work? It certainly did in past releases...

If I quite simply remove gnome-software, which I don't much like anyway, it looks like the handling reverts to the archive extract tool (whatever it's called these days), which is actually an improvement, but still not very helpful.

So, what's everyone else doing in these situations? Is there a "standard" alternative application? I know this was handle by gnome-packagekit for a while, but its component for installation from file seems to be gone. And, yeah, I know about rpm command line and yum and all, but shouldn't there be a "more user-friendly" way?

Thanks.

- Toralf


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