Package: gnome-software Version: 3.22.5-1 Followup-For: Bug #851856 Hi,
support for local packages installation is still broken on 3.22.5-1. Looking in the sources, gnome-software uses the wrong MIME type for Debian packages, changing from 'application/x-deb' to 'application/vnd.debian.binary-package' seems to fix installation of standalone debs. The patch is trivial: --- gnome-software-3.22.5/src/plugins/gs-plugin-packagekit-local.c 2017-01-16 16:17:50.000000000 +0100 +++ gnome-software-3.22.5-fixed/src/plugins/gs-plugin-packagekit-local.c 2017-06-22 14:23:12.139521525 +0200 @@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ g_autoptr(GsApp) app = NULL; const gchar *mimetypes[] = { "application/x-app-package", - "application/x-deb", + "application/vnd.debian.binary-package", "application/x-redhat-package-manager", "application/x-rpm", NULL }; Cheers, Andrea -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages gnome-software depends on: ii appstream 0.10.6-2 ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.26.0-2+b1 ii gnome-software-common 3.22.5-1 ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.22.0-1 ii libappstream-glib8 0.6.8-1 ii libatk1.0-0 2.22.0-1 ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u1 ii libcairo-gobject2 1.14.8-1 ii libcairo2 1.14.8-1 ii libenchant1c2a 1.6.0-11+b1 ii libfwupd1 0.7.4-2 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.36.5-2 ii libglib2.0-0 2.50.3-2 ii libgnome-desktop-3-12 3.22.2-1 ii libgtk-3-0 3.22.11-1 ii libgtkspell3-3-0 3.0.9-1 ii libgudev-1.0-0 230-3 ii libjson-glib-1.0-0 1.2.6-1 ii libpackagekit-glib2-18 1.1.5-2 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.40.5-1 ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.40.5-1 ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 0.105-18 ii libsecret-1-0 0.18.5-3.1 ii libsoup2.4-1 2.56.0-2 ii libsqlite3-0 3.16.2-5 ii packagekit 1.1.5-2 ii software-properties-gtk 0.96.20.2-1 gnome-software recommends no packages. Versions of packages gnome-software suggests: ii fwupd 0.7.4-2 ii gnome-software-plugin-flatpak 3.22.5-1 pn gnome-software-plugin-limba <none> -- no debconf information