Re: unhappy upgrade
On Sun, Oct 03, 2021 at 04:48:38PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Oct 2021 12:49:12 -0400
> "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> wrote:
> > I did do a download from their site. But it's not clear to me where
> > I need to put it and how to tell the package management software
> > about it.
>
> Did you download the .deb file of it? You can use dpkg to install, but
> it won't automatically take care of dependencies. I use gdebi-core, a
> command line utility, that will install the .deb file correctly and
> install any dependencies. You must be root to install.
You can also use this command to install a locally-downloaded .deb
package and its dependencies:
apt install ./filename.deb
The leading ./ (or ../ or /) tells apt that this is a pathname of a
local file, and not a package name.
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