Creating a file option for installing RPM packages

deano_ferrari · January 5, 2016, 3:34am

I wanted to be able to install a single RPM package again, so today I right-clicked on a RPM package, and chose ‘Open With’ > ‘Other…’, then entered
xdg-su -c "/sbin/yast2 sw_single %F"
This created 'xdg-su.desktop in ~/.local/share/applications. I renamed this file to software-installer.desktop and edited it so that the name made more sense to me
Name=Software Installer
There should be corresponding update in ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list as well.
Now when I want to download a single RPM package, FF gives me the option to install the file using ‘Software Installer’ as desired.

qbasix · August 7, 2016, 3:22pm

This work perfectly for my Leap 42.1 with KDE