Re: Extracting Dependencies of a deb package which is not a part of DPKG system
On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 12:24 -0700, Tech Geek wrote:
> So I downloaded the opera browser deb file -
> opera_10.10.4742.gcc4.qt3_i386.deb. What I am trying to do is first
> find out what all packages does this deb file depends on and then
> install those packages first (using apt-get) and then finally install
> this deb file (using dpkg -i opera_10.10.4742.gcc4.qt3_i386.deb).
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You could just add Opera's Debian repository to you sources.lst, then
installing (and updating) Opera will work like any Debian package.
See http://deb.opera.com/
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