** Also affects: ubuntu-release-notes
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: ubuntu-release-notes
Status: New => Fix Released
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Title:
Cannot install Debian files outside of the repositories
Status in Release Notes for Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in gnome-software package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Status in gnome-software source package in Xenial:
Confirmed
Status in gnome-software source package in Yakkety:
Confirmed
Status in gnome-software source package in Zesty:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Impact
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It is not possible to use the default Software app to install .debs for
packages that are not already available in Ubuntu.
Test Case
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1.
a. Download the .deb for a simple app for your version of Ubuntu directly
from Launchpad.
For 16.10, try
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-clocks/3.22.1-0ubuntu1/
Click amd64 then download the last .deb on that page.
b. Open the .deb with gnome-software:
gnome-software --local-filename=gnome-clocks_3.22.1-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
gnome-software should open to a page with an Install button for the
package.
This test case should already work.
2.
a. Download a .deb that is not already in Ubuntu.
It is important that the package not be available in your local apt cache.
For this, I made sure that I was not using the GNOME3 Staging PPA. As of
today, switcheroo-control is not accepted into Ubuntu 17.04.
So I downloaded
https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+archive/ubuntu/gnome3-staging/+files
/switcheroo-control_1.1-0ubuntu0~zesty1_amd64.deb
b. Open the .deb with gnome-software
gnome-software
--local-filename=switcheroo-control_1.1-0ubuntu0~zesty1_amd64.deb
I only suggested using switcheroo-control because I know it's not because the
package isn't packaged correctly. Alternatively, this test case should also
work with one of these:
https://www.google.com/chrome/
https://itch.io/app
gnome-software should open to a page with an Install button for the
package.
What Happens
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The second test fails. On Ubuntu 17.04, I get a popup
"Sorry this did not work The file is not supported"
On Ubuntu 16.04 LTS or 16.10, I get "Sorry this did not work No
file_to_app results to show"
Regression Potential
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Original Bug Report
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.deb files fail to install from non repository locations i.e. The file
manager gnome-software claims "this file type is not supported".
Using dpkg from the command line works as expected so the files aren't
corrupt. This happened last distribution as well when it was first
released. Might be a regression caused by adding snap package
capabilities to the software-center?
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.04
Package: gnome-software 3.22.6-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.10.0-13.15-generic 4.10.1
Uname: Linux 4.10.0-13-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.4-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity:Unity7
Date: Mon Mar 13 10:02:00 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-02-20 (20 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Release amd64 (20161012.2)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-software
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to zesty on 2017-02-28 (12 days ago)
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