You can use sudo dpkg -i packagename.deb in the mean time (though you probably know this already). I just figure I should post the workaround close to your post.
Does gdebi use apt-get? apt-get recently underwent some changes to become apt.. this may be part of the problem... On 04/21/2014 10:17 PM, Aere Greenway wrote: > Phill: > > Since we must use gdebi to install packages not in the repository > (Lubuntu Software Center will not perform that function), the bug in > it where it fails to install dependencies is probably important. > > Here is the bug (my bug report was a duplicate of this one): > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1309387 > By the way, I have now tested (successfully) an upgrade from 13.10 to > 14.04. > > - Aere > > > On 04/21/2014 08:44 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'd like to heard what bug numbers we have onto this email so that I >> can liase with our head of dev when he gets settled into his new >> appartment (and has internet etc!!!). >> >> The Chromium bug seems to be an a row with iBus, killing the iBus >> applet brings being able to type into Chromium. At this point I do >> not see a need to go running off to another system that has zero >> chance of being accepted into an LTS and suggest people await a full >> bug fix. (We need more testers!!!) >> >> The Bug is in Chromium and iBUS API ... they just need told to be >> play together nicely. >> >> The nm-applet not being there.. well, it just seems to have been >> forgotten to be auto start - I'm as guilty as any tester, as I didn't >> even notice it had gone because it had not being there had no effect >> as I rebooted simply because it had been previously configured. (We >> need more testsers!!!) >> >> http://www.webupd8.org/2014/04/fix-lubuntu-1404-network-manager.html >> >> >> Anyone else got any major bugs, apart the usual 'my old graphics card >> doesn't work' ? >> >> Please feel free to speak freely, but please also note that this is a >> request of where we are and not people to start arguing with each >> other. Please keep such squabbles to your selves and just leave >> constrictive comments on here. >> >> Regards, >> >> Phill. >> >> -- >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw >> >> > > > -- > Sincerely, > Aere > > -- Regards
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