Re: Nautilus and .debs

[Andrew McMillan <andrew@catalyst.net.nz>]

On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 01:38, Lucas Moreno Encabo wrote:
> 
> 
>   Today I've benn using nautilus and I've seen the option "Install Package"
> over a .deb file. I launched it to see what happend and it didn't worked.
> 
>   First of all, you have to be root (or have enough permissions for
> installing a package), then is when I remmeber the utility that RH8 has for
> installing rpms just with a double-click asking you the password.
> 
>   Will it be easy to adapt it for debian? It's a usefull thing for the
> debian-desktop project and for everyone using gnome day by day.
> 
>   What do you think?

If you wrapped the command you want to run in (something like)
gnome-sudo would it do what you want?

Then it would just be a matter of changing the mime-types so that
something like:

#!/bin/andrews/pseudo/shell
if uid == 0 then
  command
else
  if sufficiently functional environment then
    gnome-sudo command
  else
    command
  fi
fi

happened somewhere.

Regards,
					Andrew.
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