No it's not that clicking the .deb doesn't fire up gdebi-gtk (it does), it's that gdebi-gtk crashes whilst installing the .deb throwing the error:-
dpkg: error: unable to read filedescriptor flags for <package status and progress file descriptor>: Bad file descriptor Changing (or dropping) the %f option makes no difference :( -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to gdebi in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1756238 Title: gdebi-gtk broken in 18.04 error: unable to read filedescriptor flags Status in gdebi package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: When using gdebi-gtk to install a .deb the install fails with the message:- dpkg: error: unable to read filedescriptor flags for <package status and progress file descriptor>: Bad file descriptor This only occurs via the gdebi-gtk GUI front end, packages install perfectly if done via the CLI with: sudo gdebi /path/to/packagename.deb To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdebi/+bug/1756238/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
