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Judging by your other comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22954061 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22954061) you were using Software Center for t
by capableweb 7y ago
Judging by your other comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22954061 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22954061) you were using Software Center for the installing. Gdebi was working fine back before Software Center.
- jakear 7y agoI was using whatever popped up in a default Ubuntu VM when I double clicked a .deb file. If they've chosen to make that not the best software for installing .deb's... lets just say I can see why people say Linux distributions tend to be user-unfreindly.
- capableweb 7y agoOk, great story, but not really relevant to the conversation around the difference ways you can install a .deb, which is the subject of this particular sub-thread.