Easy third-party package installer for debian-based distributions

[Wouter Stomp]

On 9/18/05, Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis at kaarsemaker.net> wrote:

> What is really needed is a GUI that takes a .deb, fetches the
> dependencies via apt and installs the deb. That would however still not
> solve the problem of missing information in the .deb file.
> 

Isn't this almost exactly what the autopackage guys are trying to do?
At least when they finish the native package manager integration...
Would be great to see this in Dapper!

Wouter.