Re: directly installing a deb package

[Alex Hunsley <lard@miezekatze.com>]

"Brooks R. Robinson" wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> >
> > thanks
> > alex
> Greetings,
>         You need the correct tool for the correct job.  dpkg -i <package name> will
> od the trick.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Brooks

Thanks Brooks and all the others who replied.

I've tried using dpkg as described, but there are problems:

pylori:~/debs# dpkg -i xaos_3_0-23_i386.deb
Selecting previously deselected package xaos.
(Reading database ... 16818 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking xaos (from xaos_3_0-23_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xaos:
 xaos depends on aalib1 (>= 1.2); however:
  Package aalib1 is not installed.
 xaos depends on libc6 (>= 2.2.2-2); however:
  Version of libc6 on system is 2.1.3-18.
 xaos depends on libncurses5 (>= 5.2.20010310-1); however:
  Version of libncurses5 on system is 5.0-6.0potato1.
 xaos depends on svgalibg1 | svgalib-dummyg1; however:
  Package svgalibg1 is not installed.
  Package svgalib-dummyg1 is not installed.
 xaos depends on xlibs (>= 4.0.1-11); however:
  Package xlibs is not installed.
dpkg: error processing xaos (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 xaos
pylori:~/debs#


Should I just try and install the missing things? Which one(s) first?

thanks
alex


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