On Sun, Oct 03, 2021 at 04:48:38PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Sun, 3 Oct 2021 12:49:12 -0400 > "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <r...@rtellason.com> wrote: > > I did do a download from their site. But it's not clear to me where > > I need to put it and how to tell the package management software > > about it. > > Did you download the .deb file of it? You can use dpkg to install, but > it won't automatically take care of dependencies. I use gdebi-core, a > command line utility, that will install the .deb file correctly and > install any dependencies. You must be root to install.
You can also use this command to install a locally-downloaded .deb package and its dependencies: apt install ./filename.deb The leading ./ (or ../ or /) tells apt that this is a pathname of a local file, and not a package name.
