On Sb, 06 iun 20, 09:37:11, Richard Owlett wrote: > I've just installed Buster and am selecting which apps on my Stretch machine > I wish to continue to use. > > For some reason I had installed Gdebi. > I can't find a good description on which base a decision. > https://packages.debian.org lists no homepage. > https://manpages.debian.org links to https://launchpad.net/gdebi/ which > gives no descriptive material. > From search engine hits I gather was developed when Ubuntu made installation > of deb files inconvenient. > In a straight Debian environment, does it give any advantage over Synaptic > &/or apt? As per the description, gdebi is for local (i.e. downloaded .deb files) so it provides a function that synaptic does not. In the meantime APT can install local packages as well, so its only advantages appear to be: - GUI - scanning with lintian On the other hand, looking at its Tracker page[1] it appears to be unmaintained: - old-old-stable (jessie): 0.9.5.5+nmu1 - old-stable (stretch): 0.9.5.7+nmu1 - stable (buster) 0.9.5.7+nmu3 - testing (bullseye) 0.9.5.7+nmu3 - unstable (sid): 0.9.5.7+nmu3 It looks like no or very limited development upstream (or newer versions were not packages for Debian - didn't check) and the package in Debian has been maintained by others (NMU = Non-Maintainer Upload). [1] https://tracker.debian.org/gdebi Hope this helps, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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