On Sun, Nov 12, 2023 at 09:25:26AM -0500, Thomas George wrote: > Alternately dpkg -i debfile.deb works.
That doesn't install the dependencies. It may leave your packages in a semi-broken state, requiring you to run "apt-get -f install" afterward to fix it. Using "apt install ./debfile.deb" pulls in the dependencies and keeps things in a working state at all times, if possible. Using "dpkg -i" and then "apt-get -f install" was the old way. You'll still see people recommending it, because they don't know any better, and old methods that still "work" (most of the time) take a long time to die out. It doesn't help that "apt install ./file" is not documented in the official man pages. People can only learn about it from the wiki, or from word of mouth.
