Re: How to apt-get a downloaded deb file?

[John Griffiths <john@capmon.com>]

At 11:15 PM 1/27/2001 -0500, Frank Rocco wrote:
>    Hello,
>
>I downloaded firestarter and am wondering how I get apt-get to install
>it.
>When I run the command, it says it cannot find the deb file.
>

u need to use dpkg, eg:

#dpkg -i foo.deb

it might tell you it has dependecies which you can apt-get (and if it works right it will then install the firestarter file without asking)