Thus spake Alex Hunsley:
> Alex Hunsley wrote:
> >
> > "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
>
> Progress... I did apt-get install xaos from the net. It failed again, but
> suggested I run "apt-get -f install", which I have done, and it seems to be
> happily getting the needed dependencies. Is this the correct way to correct the
> situation normally?
>
> thanks
> alex
>
How did it fail? I guess what I'm trying to say is, can you post the
failures here? It'll give a better idea of what's happening. the -f
option works, but can cause some packages to break. Write back and I'll
see what can be done.
Good luck,
Steve
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