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Re: .deb packages from outside debian/dists/ ?



On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 08:31:50PM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote:
> 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?

dpkg -i blah.deb

> And most important - where are the answers to these questions in the 
> documentation?

dpkg --help
man dpkg
man deb



Ben

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