[Desktop-packages] [Bug 280623] Re: .deb association with gdebi doesn't work in firefox

2013-03-13 Thread Adolfo Jayme Barrientos
** No longer affects: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/280623 Title: .deb association with gdebi doesn't work in firefox Status in “firefox” packag

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 280623] Re: .deb association with gdebi doesn't work in firefox

2012-07-20 Thread PaulReiber
OK so I'm opening a little can of worms here, but some things just need to be done. gdebi needs to run as root to install packages. Firefox is (hopefully) NOT running as root. This is a HUGELY important issue for everyday end-users - they click, they expect things to work. There may well be a p