[Users] vz-guest-tools-lin installer doesn't have to install gdebi for debian & ubuntu, but instead install gdebi-core

[Ing. Viliam Kubis]

Greetings members,

I was installing vz-guest-tools-lin for openvz7 via the prlctl
installtools command. The inserted CD image contains an install script.

This script attempts to first run noninteractive apt-get -y install
gdebi on debian systems. This pulls in many MBs worth of stuff for Xorg
and GTK, since this package contains the gdebi-gtk graphical frontend
for gdebi.

It is absolutely enough to install gdebi-core, which provides the
required gdebi core in /usr/share/gdebi. The installer falls back to
dpkg -i anyway so I think the whole gdebi installation is unnecessary.

However when you don't install gdebi, the installer spits out many bash
errors (gdebi: command not found) as it it constantly falling back to
dpkg, which happened to me when I didn't configure the VM network
adapter yet. This appears very confusing to the user.

I would love to submit a pull request if I could, but I couldn't find
vz-guest-tools source published anywhere except on official download site.

I just wanted to share a little insight and if this could be improved in
the future, that would be great.

Regards,
Ing. Viliam Kubis :)
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Founder, CTO

*KBS Development s.r.o.*
Seberíniho 1
821 03 Bratislava
www.kbs-development.com <https://www.kbs-development.com> 

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