Hi. On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 07:27:01AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 08/17/2018 06:31 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 17 August 2018 05:29:07 Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > > > On 2018-08-13 09:38:48 -0300, Samuel Henrique wrote: > > > > If you pass a file as parameter to apt install, like: > > > > apt install ./package.deb > > > > It will work, at least on buster. > > > > > > And the "./" is important, otherwise it will not work (until now, > > > for this reason, I didn't know that passing a file was supported). > > > I don't know the exact rule, but it seems that the pathname needs > > > to start with either "/", "./" or "../". > > > > The effect is where the search for the given file is anchored > > just a plain filename is assumed to be someplace in the $PATH > > / means its in the root directory > > ./ means its in the current directory the shell is cd'd to > > ../ means its one directory level above the currently cd'd to directory > > > > > > Can an absolute path [/home/richard/mydebs/aname.deb] be given?
Yes. Checked out this useful feature myself today. Absolute pathname definitely works. Reco
