I'm pretty sure I had this working on Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04 under xfce. Now it's not, and no matter what I do this bug can't be worked-around short of running it at the command line. The graphical password dialog just won't pop up. I feel something must have changed recently in Ubuntu to reintroduce this bug.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to gdebi in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1734477 Title: LubuntuNext 17.10 - When not run from terminal, fails upon "Install" Status in gdebi package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I recently installed Lubuntu Next 17.10. I have been using Flashpeak-SlimJet as a browser, but it is not in the repositories, so I download the .deb file and use gdebi to install it. The version of gdebi that Lubuntu Next installs is gdebi-kde, presumably because LN uses Qt. However, as described at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdebi/+bug/1731803 gdebi-kde is not usable, and since I needed to install a .deb, I installed the gtk version, gebi. That seems to work, until one clicks on "Install", whereupon the window disappears with no message, never to return... When run from terminal, the window disappears, but another appears. This one asks for my password, and when provided one, runs to completion, installing the package. (I did run it without terminal, and looked amongst my other desktops, thinking that perhaps the password window was there, but displayed in the wrong desktop, but found nothing.) It is possible that adding "sudo " to the .desktop file "Exec" would solve the standalone menu invocation, but I am not sure that would help when using the right-click context menu from the desired .deb (and if not, how one would fix that (surely more common) situation). -------------------------------------------------------------------- scott@scott-Asus-M2N68-AM-PLUS:~$ uname -a Linux scott-Asus-M2N68-AM-PLUS 4.13.0-17-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP Mon Nov 6 10:04:08 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux scott@scott-Asus-M2N68-AM-PLUS:~$ lsb_release -dsc Ubuntu 17.10 artful scott@scott-Asus-M2N68-AM-PLUS:~$ echo $DESKTOP_SESSION QLubuntu scott@scott-Asus-M2N68-AM-PLUS:~$ apt-cache policy gdebi gdebi: Installed: 0.9.5.7+nmu1ubuntu3 Candidate: 0.9.5.7+nmu1ubuntu3 Version table: *** 0.9.5.7+nmu1ubuntu3 500 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/universe amd64 Packages 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/universe i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status -------------------------------------------------------------------- ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10 Package: gdebi 0.9.5.7+nmu1ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-17.20-generic 4.13.8 Uname: Linux 4.13.0-17-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.5 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: LXQt Date: Sat Nov 25 14:34:46 2017 InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-11-06 (19 days ago) InstallationMedia: Lubuntu-Next 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Beta amd64 (20171014) PackageArchitecture: all SourcePackage: gdebi UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdebi/+bug/1734477/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
