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Re: Customized Debian - Was: What are some common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUX?



Erwan David wrote:
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 01:38:03PM CET, Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> said:

At the end-user level I think Debian has a logical flaw.
It presumes that all software is always available in a repository (be
it FOSS/proprietary, trusted/untrusted, whatever distinction).
Yesterday I found a program (in beta) whose functional writeup was
interesting. In the latest revision a deb package was added to the
previously available formats. I downloaded the package with my
Windows machine (it was available at the instant). I now have a deb
package on a flash drive which Debian can read but has no built-in
convenient method to install.

gdebi is now your friend


Thank you.
And, for the record, someone had responded privately that I could also use dpkg -i ...

They both did what I wanted.
Couldn't use the new package as there was an unfulfilled dependency. But the problem was handled cleanly.



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