[maemo-developers] invoking the application manager programatically in Qt

[From: Benno Senoner]

you can try to install the .deb files directly
system("dpkg -i yourpackage.deb");
but probably it needs to be done as root, not sure how to handle this
situation on maemo5 ?
(perhaps system("sudo dpkg -i yourpackage.deb");

cheers,
Benno


2010/2/25 ibrahim <ibrahim.ali at asgatech.com>:
> greetings;
>
> I was hoping to add enable installing some features/add-ons/updates in the
> form of .deb packages (for example: font packages/ updates to my SW) from
> within my  Qt application. So, I used an approach similar to OTA
> installation. I add a '.install' file in some server, open the link to that
> install file inside my application using qwebkit's webview. and when the
> user clicks on the link to the '.install' file, the
> Hildon-application-manager gets invoked and my update package is installed.
> but i faced the following problems:
> first: the webkit component doesn't understand the association between the
> .install file and the required application to open it. the qwebview either
> displays the .install file as text in the browser or does nothing.
>
> I can overcome this problem by delegating the webl inks and handling them on
> my own, ... when user clicks on the .install file's link, i can create a
> QHTtp object to download the file to any location (say /tmp)
>
> but the real problem is : i have the .install file But i can't invoke the
> app manager to install the package with the file. Calling the command
> "hildon-aaplication-manager install_file.install " from system() or using a
> QProcess object from within the code  - OR EVEN from command-line as root -
>  returns the following:
> in the console: the app manager requests a password (??? what password
> should i provide ???)
> then the app manager starts and shows the following notification: "Operation
> Failed"
> just like that.
>
> is there's a way to invoke the app manager to install a package from my Qt
> code ???
>
> any assistance is  higly appreciated
> thanks in advance;
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