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I wish there was a right click install button for deb files (programming.dev)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I know it's not that hard $ dpkg -i but opening the terminal gives normies an aneurysm and thanks to the crazy gatekeeping gen alpha doesn't know what a file type is now.

I use Ubuntu btw. Personally, the App store's on Linux confused me a ton, setting up Flatpak and some other package repositories. I much preferred the windows way, shocker, with just downloading and double-click the exe file.

Do I have to make a pull request myself to get this done, or what is the debate on this?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (11 children)

I really don't understand why it's not more streamlined, it should work like an exe where I just click it and it installs and handles dependencies automatically.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Not quite what you want, but in dolphin you can open a terminal with F4, and then just type sudo deb -i <package.deb> and your password. Pretty quick.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

It's a useful shortcut.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

@RommieDroid It’s not there by default, but Gdebi can do the trick. I used it quite a lot when I first started with Linux.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's awesome. Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

@RommieDroid No problem. Many of us are here to help in the #linux community, though I wouldn’t say I’m the most advanced with it.

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