Bug 457701 - Can't install RPM packages from desktop
Summary: Can't install RPM packages from desktop
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnome-packagekit
Version: 9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Robin Norwood
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-08-04 02:06 UTC by Alan Ott
Modified: 2008-08-05 12:54 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2008-08-05 12:54:51 UTC
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Description Alan Ott 2008-08-04 02:06:37 UTC 
Description of problem:
When double-clicking an RPM package on the desktop, a message popup appears which says:

"Failed to Install
You don't have the necessary
privileges to install local packages"

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Fedora 9

How reproducible:
Very

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Running as root, put an RPM on the desktop
2. Double click it
3.
  
Actual results:
Error message described above appears.

Expected results:
I would expect the package to be installed.


Additional info:

I used the VirtualBox RPM for FC9 available from virtualbox.org:
     VirtualBox-1.6.4_33808_fedora9-1.i586.rpm
Comment 1 Ray Strode [halfline] 2008-08-04 13:46:51 UTC 
moving to packagekit.

if you run polkit-gnome-authorization and explicitly give root the authorization to install packages does it work then?
Comment 2 Richard Hughes 2008-08-05 12:54:51 UTC 
Don't run your desktop as root. Please see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageKitFaq -- thanks.
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