On 30 Nov 2000 14:57:26 -0500, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi! > > >> How should I install a *.deb file which was > >> downloaded from the web to my > >> system? > > > >dpkg -i *deb > > > > after doing this do I need to run apt-get update in order to synchronize > the apt data base with the new > installed package? > no, apt-get update is to get a list of available packages in your apt
sources (defined in /etc/apt/sources.list). This is usually done to upgrade your system: apt-get update && apt-get upgrade this will upgrade all available versions for the packages you've got installed in your system cheers
