Re: *.deb

["David H. Silber" <debian-user@orbits.com>]

On Wed, May 05, 1999 at 08:16:05PM -0400, Matthew McFarlane wrote:
> How to open and install a *.deb file?

dpkg --install package_version.deb

If there are unsatisfied dependancies, dpkg will warn you and stop after
unpacking the package, but before configuring it.  Because of this, you
may wish to use apt-get instead.  When you use apt-get, you can forget
about dealing with .deb files, and instead think only about the package
that you want to install.  You can read the documentation for these
utilities with ``man dpkg'' or ``man apt-get''.

Regards,
David


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