On 08/17/2018 06:31 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Friday 17 August 2018 05:29:07 Vincent Lefevre wrote:On 2018-08-13 09:38:48 -0300, Samuel Henrique wrote:If you pass a file as parameter to apt install, like: apt install ./package.deb It will work, at least on buster.And the "./" is important, otherwise it will not work (until now, for this reason, I didn't know that passing a file was supported). I don't know the exact rule, but it seems that the pathname needs to start with either "/", "./" or "../".The effect is where the search for the given file is anchored just a plain filename is assumed to be someplace in the $PATH / means its in the root directory ./ means its in the current directory the shell is cd'd to ../ means its one directory level above the currently cd'd to directory
Can an absolute path [/home/richard/mydebs/aname.deb] be given?