Package: apt Version: 1.4.8 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
The wording on the apt-get(8) man page discourages installing of .deb files by stating that a package can not be a filename and by providing an example using a .deb file. install is followed by one or more packages desired for installation or upgrading. Each package is a package name, not a fully qualified filename (for instance, in a Debian system, apt-utils would be the argument provided, not apt-utils_1.4.8_amd64.deb). Apt supports installing .deb files directly and it should be called out on the man page. -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.5 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages apt depends on: ii adduser 3.115 ii debian-archive-keyring 2017.5 ii gpgv 2.1.18-8~deb9u2 ii gpgv1 1.4.21-4+deb9u1 ii init-system-helpers 1.48 ii libapt-pkg5.0 1.4.8 ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u3 ii libgcc1 1:6.3.0-18+deb9u1 ii libstdc++6 6.3.0-18+deb9u1 Versions of packages apt recommends: ii gnupg 2.1.18-8~deb9u2 ii gnupg1 1.4.21-4+deb9u1 Versions of packages apt suggests: pn apt-doc <none> pn aptitude | synaptic | wajig <none> ii dpkg-dev 1.18.25 ii powermgmt-base 1.31+nmu1 ii python-apt 1.4.0~beta3 -- no debconf information
