Alex Hunsley writes: > I've downloaded a .deb package from the net and want to install > it. How do I tell apt-get that I'm giving it a direct file name > rather than having it looking at the places in sources.list? The > package is sitting in /tmp at the moment, and I've tried adding > file:/tmp to sources.list, but still no luck - I think it's adding > things like stable or main to the path.
Why don't you just use dpkg -i path/to/package.deb ? Andrew.
