On 2018-08-17 13:48:11 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 17 Aug 2018 at 07:31:34 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 17 August 2018 05:29:07 Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > > > On 2018-08-13 09:38:48 -0300, Samuel Henrique wrote: > > > > If you pass a file as parameter to apt install, like: > > > > apt install ./package.deb > > > > It will work, at least on buster. > > > > > > And the "./" is important, otherwise it will not work (until now, > > > for this reason, I didn't know that passing a file was supported). > > > I don't know the exact rule, but it seems that the pathname needs > > > to start with either "/", "./" or "../". > > > > The effect is where the search for the given file is anchored > > just a plain filename is assumed to be someplace in the $PATH > > It would be very odd to place a package file into one's $PATH.
Yes, the use of $PATH is awkward. PATH is where executable files are searched for. But Debian packages are not executable. But I doubt that this is true. If I use a plain filename, strace doesn't show any attempt to look at the file anywhere. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
