On Monday, 9 October 2017 06:50:03 UTC+1, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > > Is there some kind of man page or something to explain what foo.deb is > and or bar.deb is, because in my 20+ years googling or other ways I > don't understand. If not I've been doing fine without knowing. I will > say I probably got gdebi and dpkg -i mixed up, but I do know that #dpkg > -i (package name) will install the package if you cd to the directory > where the package is. But you are probably right, I just don't know > what you're saying. To me bar is someplace where people go to talk about > foo.
Foo, bar and baz are metasyntactic variables, placeholders having similar functions to x and y in algebra. Wikipedia and The New Hackers Dictionary have good explanations and many further examples. See also FUBAR, but foo was in use before WW2.
