[ubuntu-dev] Bug#932088: gdebi doenst ask for a root password. just silently closes

[Jakob Viketoft]

Package: gdebi
Version: 0.9.5.7+nmu3
Followup-For: Bug #932088

This might be the same problem I encountered on a clean install of buster. In
my case it turns out gdebi-gtk is dependant on package dbus-x11, but it's not
listed as a dependency.

Could you try to install package dbus-x11 and see if it solves your problem?



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.2
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages gdebi depends on:
ii  gdebi-core        0.9.5.7+nmu3
ii  gir1.2-gtk-3.0    3.24.5-1
ii  gir1.2-vte-2.91   0.54.2-2
ii  gnome-icon-theme  3.12.0-3
ii  policykit-1       0.105-25
ii  python3           3.7.3-1
ii  python3-gi        3.30.4-1

Versions of packages gdebi recommends:
ii  libgtk2-perl      2:1.24992-1+b2
ii  lintian           2.15.0
ii  shared-mime-info  1.10-1

gdebi suggests no packages.

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