Working toward 0.92.4 New Possible Feature: Package Installation

Tuesday night, jacseen proposed including another feature in 0.92.4: package installation. This is a feature that has been planned for 1.0, but not considered for 0.92.x. However, with the release date of 1.0 well in the future, jacseen believes it worthwhile to implement package installation in a quick-and-dirty fashion before then.

One interesting issue that was raised is that software installation will require root privileges. It was determined that Keryx will attempt to run the installer using gksu or kdesu. If both of those fail, Keryx will complain about needing root privileges and More >