Re: [Tails-dev] installing a package with double click

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Autor: segfault
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Para: tails-dev
Assunto: Re: [Tails-dev] installing a package with double click
hi,

emma peel:
> as now we are having so many possibilities with the new Additional Software feature coming, with some friends we are working on some apps that can be used in Tails.
>
> We have a nice .deb package for newbie users to be able to install a small catalogue of tools, but we dont fin a way to bootstrap it nicely.
>
> Would it be possible to install, for example, gdebi, so users can
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> - double-click on a .deb file on Nautilus
> - get asked the admin password
> - install the debian package
>
> it is quite straighforward once you have installed it.
>
> or maybe there is a way to add a MIME type for Nautilus that will trigger some fancy thing?

I'm not sure if we should make it easy for users to install software
from untrusted sources.