<solved> Dolphin / Gdebi issue : Clicking on .deb package no longer works

[oshunluvr]

Previous to Natty, when I opened a dolphin window and clicked on a .deb package, the installer (gdebi) would pop up no problem. Now, the wiat icons floats for a few secs. then the process dies.

Attempting gdebi at the cli gets this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/usr/bin/gdebi", line 29, in <module>
  import apt
 File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apt/__init__.py", line 35, in <module>
  apt_pkg.init()
SystemError: E:Opening configuration file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10periodic - ifstream::ifstream (13: Permission denied)

However, it works at the cli with sudo.

So it appears something has changed in dolphin regarding activating a password request for a sudo operation.

Anyway I can just fix this my self? I can't seem to find the configuration file to change it.

[ubuntuku]

Re: Dolphin / Gdebi issue : Clicking on .deb package no longer works as expected

Let's check the file permissions first:

ls -al /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/

[oshunluvr]

Re: Dolphin / Gdebi issue : Clicking on .deb package no longer works as expected

Thanks for the suggestion, I will as soon as I get home.

But shouldn't the gdebi proces require a su password?

[GreyGeek]

Re: Dolphin / Gdebi issue : Clicking on .deb package no longer works as expected

In the System Settings --> File Associations.
Find x-deb. It should look like the graphic:

[oshunluvr]

Re: Dolphin / Gdebi issue : Clicking on .deb package no longer works as expected

@ubuntuku : it seems you're a genius!

stuart@office:~/Downloads$ ls -al /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/
total 3
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 174 2011-05-03 06:56 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 248 2011-05-11 19:52 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  40 2011-04-30 21:43 00trustcdrom
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 430 2011-04-07 04:12 01autoremove
-rw------- 1 root root 130 2011-05-11 19:48 10periodic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 121 2011-04-07 04:12 20changelog
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1049 2011-04-04 00:48 20packagekit
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1921 2011-04-12 02:22 50unattended-upgrades
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 182 2011-02-20 02:25 70debconf

Seemed odd that 10periodic was different but I doubted that was the issue. Lo and behold, a chmod a+r and it works.