On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 12:26:38AM +0100, somethin2cool wrote: > Given that aptitude is awesome and that all the stuff I want is missing > from all the repositories, is there anyway for me to use .deb files and > dpkg in conjunction with aptitude. I'm sure they have the dependencies > listed inside them somewhere, and it would be brilliant. I'd settle for > apt of course.
As others have mentioned, setting up a local repository is a good
option.
But for one-off packages, dpkg will do just fine. Basically, RTFM
dpkg(1):
$ man dpkg
:-)
But you're probably after:
$ dpkg --info somefile.deb
will list information about the package - including what it depends on.
# dpkg --install somefile.deb
will install the package. If dependencies are not satisfied, the package
will be installed, but not configured (usually unusable). It will be up
to you to install dependencies - this is what apt normally does for you.
Hope this helps
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Karl E. Jorgensen
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