Package: general Severity: normal Tags: squeeze In GNOME the default open action for when double-clicking on a .deb package is to open with Archive Manager, which then complains 'Could not create the archive: Archive type not supported.'
The context menu shows as the second option 'Open with GDebi Package Installer', and I think it would be hard to argue against this being a better default, especially seeing as archive manager can't understand .debs itself from a clean install... -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
