How do you install Gdebi?

I would prefer not to use the command line to install deb packages

I tried

sudo apt-get install gdebi

(didnt work)

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What about Nautilus File Manager?

I tried with

sudo apt-get install gdebi

(didnt work)

I dont like this default file manager because it does not mount USB stick on the left hand pane where I can see it. Yes I know I can access it by going into /media but that is cumbersome for drag and drop

I have other questions also but will create a seperate thread.

UPDATE: Solved, the problem is that it was a fresh install and I had not yet run apt-get update

I am using 16.2 full with rox-iceWM

I really need a more robust File Manager because I want to use cloud storage on yandex disk but to first encrypt the files with Cryptomator so that requires that the"virtual drive" get mounted on the left hand pane

I was previously using that combination with Ubuntu-Gnome3 (Nautilus which also supports WEBdav)

menu > applications > system tools > synaptic package manager

[ reload ]

[ search ] > gdebi

the thing you want to select is gdebi. then mark.

look at all this text! to think all it would take is"sudo apt-get install gdebi." guis didnt make your task any easier this time, did they? oh, im not against them-- they are a pain sometimes.

Are you sure about that? Go ahead and look in Synaptic and tell me where you find a package named gdebi.

And

sudo apt-get install gdebi

does not work. That is why I posted my question in the forum.

And i searched with search engine for"how to install gdebi" and al I find is"Its already included in Ubuntu" But of course that does not help me here

If it is in the Ubuntu or Debian repos at all than it must have a different name than gdebi and that is what I am trying to find out

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gdebi

works fine here.

If it doesn't for you post the output of those commands.

How about using spacefm file manager? (Included on the iso)

sorry, you did mention that apt-get install gdebi didnt work. i think i know why, but i did cover that when i said [ reload ] (in synaptic.)

at first, when i searched in synaptic, it didnt find gdebi for me either. it listed gdebi and dpkg, which already was installed. when i ran [ reload ] (just click it at the top of synaptic) it was able to find gdebi, and gdebi-core (which is selected automatically.)

this should correspond to"sudo apt-get update" on the command line. but i dont use synaptic (ever) except to help other people. were you still unable to search for and find gdebi after you clicked [ reload ] ?

Thanks guys, I am not home to try it out but will do so when I return.

Thank you for helping me. I will follow up

Now that I think about it it is a fresh install and I have not run sudo apt-get update ever

Is dkpg -i packagename the exact equivalent of gdebi?

I understood that gdebi installs packages while satisfying all their dependencies. Is the command line tool do exactly the same function?

Is this AntiX a distro for computer Linux experts? I had thought it was just debian with lightweight DE

Because I have fiddled around with Arch and Manjaro and I"bombed out" as far as getting a functional workstation with those flavors.

And not for lack of trying, I spent a week trying to get it working. I am willing to put in the time and effort and dont shy away from learning.

Thank you for helping me and I will stay on board to help others too on this forum if I am able to get this working.

apt-get install will retrieve package and deps. it actually calls dpkg to install them.

dpkg -i will install packages, and deps if they are included. if the deps are not there, it will not succeed.

an aside: dpkg-deb -x package-name ./path will open (unzip) a package to ./path, which is fine for examining the contents but you probably dont want to try to install things that way.


personal opinion: antix is pretty friendly, i do not consider it an"experts only" distro. its a fairly lightweight distro, which means that some things that add layers and layers of bloat (and only a little bit of extra user-friendliness) get thrown out. most of the things that make debian or ubuntu user-friendly (synaptic for example) are included.

feel free to pm me a list of anything you find in ubuntu (or any other distro) that would make antix easier to use. im not joking, i would find that information interesting. note that i do not work on any public version of antix (though i have a script that can modify my copy of it automatically.)

Thanks dude

The best thing about ubuntu in my opinion is the system configuration tools that allow you to make changes without rolling up your sleeves and getting down and dirty editing the files manually that start with .filename

I almost never had to leave the /home directory to make any changes

I would like to see a gui that lets you remap the buttons on the keyboard or mouse (for example).

Or a highly intelligent"repair grub" that scans your drives and fixes boot errors related to an incorrect grub selection. And f grub fails to boot that it would on the fly say"grub is set to boot sda1 but there is no valid path at sda1. Would you like to use sda2? Ok, that failed as well. Would you like to try sda3? That failed. Would you like to try sdb1?" That worked. Would you like to rewrite grub to boot from sbd1? Operation complete, enjoy your AntiX

the problem with something like a very"smart" repair-grub is that it can only be smart about a fixed number of situations. in any other it could be destructive. no one who is clever enough to develop it is likely to be comfortable with it. on the other hand, in the majority of situations repairing grub is one or two steps (or used to be, prior to grub 2.) going back to the menu when booting doesnt happen does seem like a step in the right direction though.

most of the configuration utilities im familiar with in ubuntu are tied to the desktop environment-- i have had very little luck running kde since it went to 4.x, 3.x was solid. gnome 2 was great, its a pity debian supported mate as poorly as they did (i think it was as political as it was technical.)

what you probably want from antix is to just install xfce. as for remapping keys, can you give a couple examples?"remapping keys" could mean one of a couple of things-- one of those things would be fixed by installing xfce. the other can also be done, but i dont know if theres a gui for it.

When i say remappping keys I am referring to my other thread where the volume up and down"Fn + F8" keys are not working

We can close this ticket as solved. It was my fault, I had never run the sudo apt update && upgrade and that is why the packages where not appearing.

Now I am able to install them. Thank you

Whats with this rox term? It is only 3 inches tall, how do you maximize it? Also after installing nautilus it is doing the same thing as Rox Term, it is"short in height" and no way to see the full window

disregard my last message I just logged out and back in and the problem went away