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bin

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From: U.K.

Registered: 2016-01-28

Posts: 1,333

Gdebi permissions issue on Centaurus

Just went to install a package on Centaurus using gdebi

Normally (pre Centaurus) it would ask for password after clicking Install - now it just crashes.

Running from CLI

 Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading state information... Done

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............
Need to be root to install packages

What it seems is that the installer is unable to find the correct path to whatever is need to launch the admin password box.
Don't know if this is due to background re-routing of tdesudo or something else.

Easy workaround obviously - but curious.

jotapesse

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From: Algarve, Portugal

Registered: 2019-03-23

Posts: 67

Re: Gdebi permissions issue on Centaurus

HI!

No issues here, on my Centaurus install, running on terminal. Did you use "sudo"? Also, via GUI no issues, it asks for administrative password.

$ sudo gdebi /var/cache/apt/archives/ne_3.1.2-1_amd64.deb 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree        
Reading state information... Done
Reading state information... Done

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/usr/bin/gdebi:113: FutureWarning: Possible nested set at position 1
  c = findall("[[(](\S+)/\S+[])]", msg)[0].lower()
Selecting previously unselected package ne.
(Reading database ... 364953 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../archives/ne_3.1.2-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking ne (3.1.2-1) ...
Setting up ne (3.1.2-1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.5-2) ...
Processing triggers for menu (2.1.47+b1) ...

Last edited by jotapesse (2019-05-31 09:43)

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bin

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From: U.K.

Registered: 2016-01-28

Posts: 1,333

Re: Gdebi permissions issue on Centaurus

Interesting. I have done this on 2 different machines and also from live media with gdebi installed - always the same result.

What happens on your machine if you try to install a package after login - in other words not having used sudo at all?

Are you using Trinity or Plasma? I'm on Trinity.

q4osteam

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Registered: 2015-12-06

Posts: 4,502

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Re: Gdebi permissions issue on Centaurus

You probably need have "policykit-1" installed and do a new login for Polkit service to be started, as gdebi binary requires "pkexec" agent. We will check that and post back.

q4osteam

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Registered: 2015-12-06

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Re: Gdebi permissions issue on Centaurus

Yes, we are able to reproduce as well as workaround the issue. The "polkit-kde-agent-1" package is missing in Trinity core install, so you only need to install it and do a new login. We will include the package into one of installation profiles. Thanks for the report.

bin

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From: U.K.

Registered: 2016-01-28

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Re: Gdebi permissions issue on Centaurus

Thanks very much for the quick response team!

detoo

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Registered: 2019-01-17

Posts: 86

Re: Gdebi permissions issue on Centaurus

Just encountered this issue and am curious as to how / why Synaptic missed the polkit-kde-agent-1 dependency when I installed GDebi.

Edit: Thanks for the prompt reply!

Last edited by detoo (2020-07-08 04:04)

q4osteam

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Re: Gdebi permissions issue on Centaurus

Yes, it's a Debian issue, as the "gdebi" package misses the "polkit" dependency.