Le 05/04/2014 16:47, Fabio Rafael da Rosa a écrit : > Em 05-04-2014 11:18, Diederik de Haas escreveu: >> On Saturday 05 April 2014 11:06:11 Fabio Rafael da Rosa wrote: >>> After the first boot, I did download google-chrome from the website, >>> and >>> tried to install it, without success. >>> I did check that, for being able to install something from the UI, with >>> a double click, I must install gdebi-kde. >>> Why is that not installed by default ? >> Because that's not the way most people install programs on their Debian >> system. In general, you should NOT install packages by downloading an >> installer from some website on the internet. > Thats how people that comes from other linux distro use it, as most of > use that are on linux for some time, are used to install things from a > repository, or download the source and compile it ourself if we need a > new version. But, that's not how the average user expects the system > to work. I do understand that there are risks on installing a package > from unknown source, but, disabling that will _not_ prevent people > from doing it. It's worse, as people will try to find instructions > that will ask him to open the command line, copy/paste something from > a unknown website, and will not even know what he is doing. >> >> Debian has a very big library (repository) for installing packages, >> which are >> packed by Debian Developers/Maintainers. This makes sure the packages >> are well >> integrated into your system and don't install a malicous program with a >> virus/trojan/etc in it. The system that makes it all work is called APT. > Yes, but, debian can't package 'everything' from the web. The user > can't install chrome, dropbox or spotify with apt-get. And, the > average user _will_ try to install it, because they are used to those > programs. XP is done. Several people don't wanna buy a new computer > just because the OS expired. Some of them will keep using and outdated > os. Some of them will try to find an alternative. Mint and Ubuntu are > the most adverstised ones, but, there are people that are asking about > debian, because steamos gave new visibility to debian. At least, > that's what I can see from people that come to me asking about linux. >> As for a GUI program to use APT to install various programs, you >> probably want >> to try out synaptic. > The package manager program is not the main problem here. >> >> HTH, >> Diederik >> >
To install .deb with a kde gui, you have to install gdebi-kde It does exactly what you are looking for. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5340193f.4060...@rail.eu.org
