Re: Installing a single .deb file
On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 21:17 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> Rich Rudnick wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 18:48 -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> >
> >>Nate writes:
> >>
> >>>If you're using Midnight Commander, just highlight the .deb file and hit
> >>><Enter> or double-click. When the .deb is opened highlight the INSTALL
> >>>file and hit <Enter> or double-click.
> >>
> >>>You asked for easy
> >>
> >>Easy is typing 'dpkg -i filename'.
> >
> >
> > Assuming filename has no uninstalled dependencies. By jiminy, that
> > sounds like the nearest thing to rpm hell debian has to offer :)
>
> It is basically the same thing. For example, dpkg:rpm::apt:urpmi.
> In other words, rpm is just a format and some associated low level
> tools. Like dpkg, it performs no dependency checking or resolution.
> It is a common misconception that people have that the problem is
> with rpm. It is not. Imagine trying to use dpkg in the same way
> many people use rpm and you will see it is just a case of the wrong
> tool (or no tool) for the job.
>
Yes, that's why dpkg -i is Abaddon, abyss, affliction, agony, anguish,
blue blazes, bottomless pit, difficulty, emergency, everlasting fire,
grave, Hades, hell-fire, hot place, infernal regions, inferno, limbo,
lower world, martyrdom, misery, nether world, nightmare, ordeal,
pandemonium, perdition, pit, purgatory, suffering, torment, trial,
underworld, wretchedness, and I avoid it like the plague. Of course,
sometimes it's been the only cure for my own stupidity :)
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