On Mon 13 Aug 2018 at 17:49:08 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > 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.
I don't think it does, y'know. That's why apt-get was created. -- Brian.
