-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 08:35:50AM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Mon, 13 Aug 2018 06:47:02 -0500 > Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> wrote: > > > PREAMBLE: > > I've downloaded a .deb file. > > I've recently done such an install but don't remember how. > > Looking at the man pages for apt, apt-get, aptitude didn't help. > > Couldn't come up with useful search term for wiki. > > Eventually recalled "dpkg -i" which worked. > > > > QUESTION: > > How would someone find the answer if the answer wasn't already known? > > I went thru the same sequence last time. > > > > I use gdebi to install local .deb files. It handles the dependencies, > too.
As I said already, dpkg does install dependencies. Actually, I don't know any (Debian) tool which wouldn't, by default. Cheers - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAltxqHQACgkQBcgs9XrR2kaeywCfbVpULXhsUxfDOU3wNW7LKBue o5gAniQsBDtaHO6GT+ckcqj/SUC3f/CB =zqDq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
