Ubuntu
gdebi package

  1. Bug #1854588
  2. Comment #1

Comment 1 for bug 1854588

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Lantizia (lantizia) wrote : Re: Clicking 'Install' on gdebi-gtk makes it vanish ONLY when .deb opened from Chrome/Firefox

So a workaround for anyone reading this... (thanks to alkisg on freenode for working with me on this)...

sudo rm /usr/bin/gdebi-gtk
echo '#!/bin/sh' | sudo tee /usr/bin/gdebi-gtk
echo '/usr/share/gdebi/gdebi-gtk "$@"' | sudo tee -a /usr/bin/gdebi-gtk
sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/gdebi-gtk

Don't worry deleting 'gdebi-gtk' on that first line, it's only a symlink.

Basically this wrapper is needed otherwise policy kit complains and states "Refusing to render service to dead parents."