Author: sajolida Date: To: The Tails public development discussion list Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] installing a package with double click
segfault: > 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.
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>> 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.
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>> Would it be possible to install, for example, gdebi, so users can
>>
>> - double-click on a .deb file on Nautilus
>> - get asked the admin password
>> - install the debian package
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>> 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.
Same here especially given that people will be able to install gdebi
using Additional Software. Would this work for these people?
