begin Paul E Condon quotation: > I want to install some software that I downloaded as a .deb file, but it > did not come from a Debian mirror. Instead it came from a ftp download > from a developer's web site. The only way I have ever used dselect, dpkg, or > apt-get have been to get stuff from a Debian mirror and then unpack and > install it. This happened all automatically. Now I have a file in my home > directory. Where do I put it? What commands and options do I use? > > And most important - where are the answers to these questions in the > documentation? man dpkg However, the answer to your other questions are that it doesn't matter where you put the .deb file. You just make yourself root and run dpkg -i file.deb substituting the name of the .deb for file.deb. Craig
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