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

[From: Daniil Ivanov]

Hi!

There is hildon_uri_open methon in libhildonmime, which wraps this dbus call.
 And of course you should not use QHttp as it was deprecated in favour
of QNetworkAccessManager.

Thanks, Daniil.

2010/2/28 Victor Manuel Jáquez Leal <ceyusa at gmail.com>:
> 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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