On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 12:55 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > If you manually downloaded a .deb you can install it by > > su > cd /path/to/the/downloaded/package.deb > dpkg -i package.deb For a default Ubuntu (and perhaps for current default Debian installs too) sudo -i cd /path/to/the/downloaded/package.deb dpkg -i package.deb