On 2015-10-03, Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Saturday 03 October 2015 06:21:44 rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: >> I searched and saw that some people are installing >> using "dpkg -i"; but does that take care of dependencies? > > No. But try: > > # dpkg -i foo.deb > > Which will probably complain about dependencies, then: > > # apt-get -f install > Which will sort out the dependencies and finish installing foo.deb. > > I just tried it for the first time, and it worked a treat.
> Otherwise, list the missing dependencies and install them manually! (Or with > Synaptic.) Didn't someone mention gdebi? Description: Simple tool to install deb files - GNOME GUI gdebi lets you install local deb packages resolving and installing its dependencies. apt does the same, but only for remote (http, ftp) located packages. I think it was Petter (not sure of spelling). > Lisi > > --
