Bug 119896
| Summary: | Useability - there is no way to install an RPM | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Joel Grimes <joelgrimes> |
| Component: | pirut | Assignee: | Paul Nasrat <nobody+pnasrat> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Bill Nottingham <notting> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | p.van.egdom, rvokal, sundaram |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2006-01-24 23:14:11 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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The Real difficulty is that the IANA mime-type associated with *.rpm is for audio, not binary, bits. Off to distribution in the vain hope that something might be done ... The problem is that you can't really associate it with redhat-config-packages, because: a) randomly installing software that's downloaded seems a little bad b) it doesn't handle source RPMs Paul, planning on handling this sort of thing in PUP? Probably not in it's first incarnation, but it seems like a sensible goal to handle within the local file browser. I'll keep this one until pup goes in then transfer it as an RFE there. Transferring to Pup in development tree This should be fixed with pirut-0.9.5 and later Moving component to pirut. Sorry for the spam. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8 Description of problem: RPM files are not associated with any application by default. Thus, there is no (graphical) way to install an RPM that isn't included in the install cd's. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Download an RPM you want to install 2. Double-click on it Actual Results: Dialog box: There is no application associated with this file type. Expected Results: Some kind of graphical installer or an explanation of how to install an rpm Additional info: In addition, add/remove applications doesn't allow you to select anything that isn't on the install cds. This means that there is no way to install an rpm. If a user downloads an rpm, they are left to guess that they have to bring up a terminal and type in "rpm -i...." rpm files should be associated with an application. Didn't there used to be a program called gnorpm?