Re: Installing a single .deb file
On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 20:11 -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> I wrote:
> > Easy is typing 'dpkg -i filename'.
>
> Rich Rudnick writes:
> > Assuming filename has no uninstalled dependencies. By jiminy, that sounds
> > like the nearest thing to rpm hell debian has to offer :)
>
> Compared to using Midnight Commander to do exactly the same thing,
> 'dpkg -i filename' is easy. Do you labor under the delusion that MC
> resolves dependencies?
> --
> John Hasler
>
No, see my previous message in this thread about using dpkg-scanpackages
to manage stray debs. The tool for us casual debianites to use, no?
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