Re: Virtual Box
On Mon, 5 Aug 2019 11:50:07 -0400
Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 08:44:35AM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> > On Mon, 5 Aug 2019 08:41:06 -0400
> > Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 02:42:36PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> > > > To help installing the .deb file, install gdebi-core (commandline
> > > > version) from Buster's repo. It will take care of dependencies
> > > > which dpkg does not.
> > >
> > > Or simply use "apt install ./whatever.deb". Don't forget the leading
> > > "./" or "../" or "/" characters. They tell apt that this is a filename
> > > instead of a package name. Then, apt will resolve the dependencies.
> > >
> >
> > That little feature is not mentioned in the man pages. Never got
> > around to reading the full docs. Have to try it next time.
> >
> > FWIW, I've been using gdebi-core since Wheezy when dpkg was the usual
> > way to install a local .deb file. Liked its simplicity and just
> > continued with it with Stretch.
>
> Yeah, that's fair. I think the "apt install ./foo.deb" thing was added
> in stretch, so it's quite new.
Well, Stretch was my first exposure to apt. I used Wheezy (and apt-get)
from RC3 or 4 (replacing Fedora 12) until long term support for it
ended in 2018, then moved to Stretch skipping Jessie entirely.
I've read that apt released in 2014 or so. Its man page in Stretch is
dated 2015. So, it could have been available first in Jessie, but have
no idea if the local .deb install with dependency checking was included
then, but probably was. No matter. apt makes things easier compared to
the apt-get/apt-cache/etc suite of commands.
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