Re: Zoom.
On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 02:21:56PM -0400, Cindy Sue Causey wrote:
> On 4/21/21, Richmond <richmond@criptext.com> wrote:
> > sudo apt install ~/Downloads/zoom_amd64.deb
>
> I just had to do this AGAIN yesterday. I download the dotDEB file then
> "dpkg -i" it. It always fails due to missing dependencies. Somewhere
> in the failed effort, the reminder to "apt --fix-broken install"
> appears so that's what I do next.
You're doing it the old way. If that works, well, congrats.
The modern way is to use apt or apt-get to install the .deb file,
as Richmond showed. You need to make sure the pathname of the .deb file
that you pass to apt begins with / or ./ or ../ so apt knows it's a
pathname and not a package name. Since ~ is expanded to an absolute
path (beginning with / ), Richmond's command works just fine.
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