[Benjamin Seidenberg] > I agree. I think that there should be a way to use apt to install a > .deb with automatic dependency handling (in fact when I first began > using debian I tried several times to install a .deb using apt). I > don't know why this functionality was never written. It seems to be > fairly trivial. I heard apt-rpm has it. It does seem simple and useful. Meanwhile, since Pre-Depends are used so rarely, just do this: dpkg --unpack filename.deb apt-get -f install apt installs the dependencies, then configures the package. So long as you don't have unsatisfied pre-depends, and the package doesn't Conflict with anything on your system (or, of course, vice versa), it'll work perfectly. Peter
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