Re: Customized Debian - Was: What are some common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUX?
Le Mar 22 janvier 2013 18:01, Richard Owlett a écrit :
> 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.
About your dependency problem, I think you might try something like this:
#dpkg -i package*.deb ; aptitude install package
It should first do the broken install with dpkg, and then aptitude will
install it correctly.
This could easily be put in a script to do some checking, of course, and I
think there is a tool which allows that more easily, but I have no idea
about the name.
Since on ubuntu's forums, there are strange URLs starting by apt:// I also
guess that it is actually possible to install stuff from the web easier
than on windows.
But I'm not a buntu user, and I did not tried or checked it.
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