Since I began using Linux soon after its inception, 199?, I have just
stumbled my way much by trial and error.
stumbles related to PATH issue:
installed bookworm from dvd.
moved distribution ,bashrc's to save.bashrc's
copied .bashrc's from buster on another hard disc. These have three
virtues: root prompt colored red, l is alias of ls with list_directories
first, and rm is an alias of rm -i. PATH specification (perhaps from
previous incarnations of .bashrc}
proceeded with dpkg -i google-chrome-file.deb
At some point startled by message 'Insert distribution dvd" Did so and
google chrome successfully installed.
Tom
On 11/12/23 09:38, Andy Smith wrote:
Hello,
On Sun, Nov 12, 2023 at 09:35:33AM -0500, Thomas George wrote:
I don't like to clutter up my download file. Since I normally use dpkg -i
debfile.deb this would add a directory in the download file.
When you install a .deb package it only installs to the
fully-qualified paths inside the .deb file. It doesn't install
anything to the current directory, so it doesn't matter where the
.deb is located when you issue "dpkg -i" or "apt install ./file.deb"
(I am not sure if it is even possible for a .deb file to contain a
relative file path, but if it is, they typically don't.)
Thanks,
Andy
