Re: Package Install Problem
On Sat, 2014-02-15 at 06:41 -0700, Mike wrote:
> I am trying to install a .deb package from the local hard drive using
> dpkg -i <package>.deb.
>
> It appears to read the package and then gives me a list of dependencies
> that are missing and that the package cannot be installed.
>
> The problem is that I am trying to move over to Debian from Fedora so am
> a NEWBIE in Debian.
>
> Is there a command in either dpkg or apt-get that will load a .deb from
> the local hard drive and resolve the dependencies? I cannot find it in
> any man package or document, possibly due to being new to this structure.
I don't know if there's such a command, but you simply could copy the
dependencies shown by dpkg -i and then run apt-get update to download
the package lists from the repositories, it dosn't upgrade packages and
then apt-get install PASTED_PACKAGES_YOU_COPIED.
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