I am getting this error. Are you stating that "gedbi" is not supported
or that installing third party software with "gdebi" is not supported?
guy@other-laptop:~/Downloads$ sudo gdebi
virtualbox-5.0_5.0.14-105127-Ubuntu-wily_amd64.deb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading state information... Done
Requires the installation of the following packages: libsdl1.2debian
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Do you want to install the software package? [y/N]:y
Fetched 0 B in 0s (0 B/s)
dpkg: error: dpkg status database is locked by another process
Error in function:
SystemError: E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
Error during install: 'installArchives() failed'guy@other-laptop:~/Downloads$
guy@other-laptop:~/Downloads$ uname -a
Linux other-laptop 4.2.0-25-generic #30-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jan 18 12:31:50 UTC 2016
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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gdebi crashed with SystemError: E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned
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