On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 08:44:35AM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Mon, 5 Aug 2019 08:41:06 -0400 > Greg Wooledge <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 02:42:36PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > To help installing the .deb file, install gdebi-core (commandline > > > version) from Buster's repo. It will take care of dependencies > > > which dpkg does not. > > > > Or simply use "apt install ./whatever.deb". Don't forget the leading > > "./" or "../" or "/" characters. They tell apt that this is a filename > > instead of a package name. Then, apt will resolve the dependencies. > > > > That little feature is not mentioned in the man pages. Never got > around to reading the full docs. Have to try it next time. > > FWIW, I've been using gdebi-core since Wheezy when dpkg was the usual > way to install a local .deb file. Liked its simplicity and just > continued with it with Stretch.
Yeah, that's fair. I think the "apt install ./foo.deb" thing was added in stretch, so it's quite new.
