gdebi password issue

[carl4926]

Latest incarnation of +1
Gdebi is claiming incorrect password

Synaptic and Software Centre are fine

[dino99]

purge it
search *gdebi* inside /home & system to purge the settings left behind
reinstall gdebi

but the question is : why dont you simply use "sudo dpkg -i <package name>"

[sgage]

gdebi will download dependencies if necessary, dpkg will not.

I am getting the same error. You can use the Ubuntu Software Center - that will pull in dependencies if necessary.

[carl4926]

gdebi will download dependencies if necessary, dpkg will not.

I am getting the same error. You can use the Ubuntu Software Center - that will pull in dependencies if necessary.

Yes doing that already
gdebi seems less of a hog - though SC seems improved

[pqwoerituytrueiwoq]

i used gdebi the other day with no issue
used it to install this deb and it worked fine
http://download.opensuse.org/reposit...nmu1_amd64.deb

i use use gdebi to open downloaded deb files as it opens much faster than the software center

[sgage]

speed is why I use gdebi as well. This password problem is fairly recent. I notice that if I run a program from Alt-F2 using gksu, it gives the same error. Using gksudo, it does not. This seems odd to me, because gksudo is just a symlink to gksu!. And the two give slightly different authentication dialogs - the gksu one offers to remember the password, the gksudo one does not. I don't know how that can be, but there it is.

I found a fix - run 'gksu-properties' and change the Authentication Mode from 'su' to 'sudo'. Not sure if there are any security issues with this, but it works, and gdebi authenticates properly and all.

[tdockery97]

I did a fresh install of the 4/19 daily build and the gdebi password problem had disappeared.