Re: debian kde will not install deb from dolphin by default
Le 05/04/2014 16:47, Fabio Rafael da Rosa a écrit :
> Em 05-04-2014 11:18, Diederik de Haas escreveu:
>> On Saturday 05 April 2014 11:06:11 Fabio Rafael da Rosa wrote:
>>> After the first boot, I did download google-chrome from the website,
>>> and
>>> tried to install it, without success.
>>> I did check that, for being able to install something from the UI, with
>>> a double click, I must install gdebi-kde.
>>> Why is that not installed by default ?
>> Because that's not the way most people install programs on their Debian
>> system. In general, you should NOT install packages by downloading an
>> installer from some website on the internet.
> Thats how people that comes from other linux distro use it, as most of
> use that are on linux for some time, are used to install things from a
> repository, or download the source and compile it ourself if we need a
> new version. But, that's not how the average user expects the system
> to work. I do understand that there are risks on installing a package
> from unknown source, but, disabling that will _not_ prevent people
> from doing it. It's worse, as people will try to find instructions
> that will ask him to open the command line, copy/paste something from
> a unknown website, and will not even know what he is doing.
>>
>> Debian has a very big library (repository) for installing packages,
>> which are
>> packed by Debian Developers/Maintainers. This makes sure the packages
>> are well
>> integrated into your system and don't install a malicous program with a
>> virus/trojan/etc in it. The system that makes it all work is called APT.
> Yes, but, debian can't package 'everything' from the web. The user
> can't install chrome, dropbox or spotify with apt-get. And, the
> average user _will_ try to install it, because they are used to those
> programs. XP is done. Several people don't wanna buy a new computer
> just because the OS expired. Some of them will keep using and outdated
> os. Some of them will try to find an alternative. Mint and Ubuntu are
> the most adverstised ones, but, there are people that are asking about
> debian, because steamos gave new visibility to debian. At least,
> that's what I can see from people that come to me asking about linux.
>> As for a GUI program to use APT to install various programs, you
>> probably want
>> to try out synaptic.
> The package manager program is not the main problem here.
>>
>> HTH,
>> Diederik
>>
>
To install .deb with a kde gui, you have to install gdebi-kde
It does exactly what you are looking for.
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