How to change handler of APT: URLs?
In Firefox on a fresh install of 10.10 when visiting apt.ubuntu.com/p/banshee (for example) I get prompted with the following window:
However, I was under the impression that apturl was supposed to launch Software Center. How can I configure what application apturl is launched with - and is the above screenshot expected actions for 10.10?
Solution 1:
Yes, that is the default action.
This can be overridden by Firefox, but out of the box the gconf setting/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/apt/command
is used. By default that command is apturl "%s"
.
You can change that by using either using the graphical tool gconf-editor
or from the command line:
gconftool --set --type=string /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/apt/command 'software-center "%s"'
This will make Software Center handle apt URLs.