Re: directly installing a deb package
Alex Hunsley <lard@miezekatze.com> wrote:
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> I've downloaded a .deb package from the net and want to install it.
> How do I tell apt-get that I'm giving it a direct file name rather than
> having it looking at the places in sources.list? The package is sitting
> in /tmp at the moment, and I've tried adding file:/tmp to sources.list,
> but still no luck - I think it's adding things like stable or main to
> the path.
Use dpkg.
$ dpkg -i /foo/bar.deb
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