Re: Installing local packages
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On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 11:25:03AM -0700, Daniel L. Miller wrote:
> How can I install a package I have downloaded directly from a website?
> Apt-get says it doesn't accept a direct filename as an argument.
Because apt is only a frontend to dpkg, which is what you should be
using.
dpkg -i <filename>
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.''`. Baloo Ursidae <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org>
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