It’s a merged pull request made by a member. Dunno which release it’d be in. This means people can double-click deb files to install again (with a warning).
c.f. https://news.itsfoss.com/ubuntu-24-04-disappointment/
It’s a merged pull request made by a member. Dunno which release it’d be in. This means people can double-click deb files to install again (with a warning).
c.f. https://news.itsfoss.com/ubuntu-24-04-disappointment/
I can’t believe people construed the lack of this feature in a brand new software as bad Canonical want to kill deb! It’s a brand new software. Features need work. Either go and write them or wait for someone else to do it.
They removed installing another package that did this by default in the same version where they introduced the App Center. Ubuntu Software never handled installing third-party debs, gdebi did. And in the version where they introduced the App Center, they stopped bundling gdebi by default.
Also, the old behavior was that you double click on a deb file and App Center just hangs. This was shipped in the LTS.
This has been false for a while. The Ubuntu Software Center has been handling deb installs for a while on my machines. I just checked on my oldest machine - 20.04 - and the Ubuntu Software app launches on double clicking a deb file. I do not have
gdebi
installed. I don’t recall when it replacedgdebi
, whether it was in 16.04, 18.04 or 20.04 but it’s definitely the case in 20.04. So check your info before getting worked up.Most loud mouth open source enthusiasts are often toxic entitled choosing beggars. If any of their desires are not met, the project is dying or dead even though the statistics say otherwise.
Fork it and fix things you want to make it better?
No way bro. I want someone else to work on the feature I requested one year ago.
That would definitely be valid for a smaller community supported distro like mint, but canonical is a big company that already has kind of a bad reputation for things like that so I think it was reasonable for people to complain