On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 11:21:15 -0500 Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 08:02:23AM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > I use gdebi (it's in the repos) to install locally saved .deb files. > > Apt-get won't install local files, that is, not in a repo. > > Yes, it will. But you have to supply the filename with a > leading / or ./ or ../ prefix. > > sudo apt-get install ./google-chrome-stable*.deb That never worked for me. I've tried. Numerous times. Even with complete paths, changing to directory where file was, full names, etc., etc. Both with Wheezy & Stretch. Read somewhere when troubleshooting, apt-get wouldn't install local .deb. Only way it would was if you created a local repo and put it in your sources.list. Too much trouble. That's why I starting using gdebi for those very rare times I need to. Don't know if apt does. Never tried. Just occurred to me that since I did customized installs of both Wheezy and Stretch (No desktop environment, window manager only) starting with a terminal only system that could be why apt-get won't install local .deb. Doesn't matter. Gdebi works fine. B
