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

[From: Victor Manuel Jáquez Leal]

hildon-application-manager exports  a dbus method called "mime_open":

dbus-send --type=method_call \
             --print-reply \
             --dest='com.nokia.hildon_application_manager' \
             /com/nokia/hildon_application_manager \
             com.nokia.hildon_application_manager.mime_open \
            string:'/home/user/MyDocs/fosdem-schedule_0.3_fremantle.deb'

Also there's another dbus method called "install_file" where you set
the XID of your window and the installation work flow will be embedded
in you application... in theory, because it's not tested.

vmjl

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 4:45 PM, ibrahim <ibrahim.ali at asgatech.com> wrote:
> 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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