Currently discover can not handle native distribution archive formats such as .deb or .rpm. This means that unless a distribution installs a secondary tool users can not install google-chrome or steam as they ship a bootstrap harness via native formats. Would be handy to be able to install that sort of stuff with discover. Reproducible: Always
needs https://github.com/hughsie/PackageKit/issues/142 on apt systems to have install-local work.
Git commit 22dd7966a6b0325712216d7ec38d2ab4acdae0a5 by Aleix Pol. Committed on 16/11/2016 at 17:42. Pushed by apol into branch 'master'. Make it possible to install local file packages M +36 -0 discover/DiscoverMainWindow.cpp M +1 -0 discover/DiscoverMainWindow.h M +1 -0 discover/autotests/CMakeLists.txt M +4 -0 discover/main.cpp M +10 -0 libdiscover/backends/DummyBackend/DummyBackend.cpp M +1 -0 libdiscover/backends/DummyBackend/DummyBackend.h M +1 -0 libdiscover/backends/PackageKitBackend/CMakeLists.txt A +35 -0 libdiscover/backends/PackageKitBackend/LocalFilePKResource.cpp [License: GPL (v2/3)] A +41 -0 libdiscover/backends/PackageKitBackend/LocalFilePKResource.h [License: GPL (v2/3)] M +8 -3 libdiscover/backends/PackageKitBackend/PKTransaction.cpp M +8 -4 libdiscover/backends/PackageKitBackend/PackageKitBackend.cpp M +2 -0 libdiscover/backends/PackageKitBackend/PackageKitBackend.h M +1 -1 libdiscover/backends/PackageKitBackend/PackageKitResource.cpp M +2 -0 libdiscover/resources/AbstractResourcesBackend.h M +11 -0 libdiscover/resources/ResourcesModel.cpp M +1 -0 libdiscover/resources/ResourcesModel.h http://commits.kde.org/discover/22dd7966a6b0325712216d7ec38d2ab4acdae0a5