I don't like to clutter up my download file. Since I normally use dpkg
-i debfile.deb this would add a directory in the download file.
Tom George
On 11/11/23 23:31, Timothy Butterworth wrote:
On November 11, 2023, at 11:16 PM, David <bouncingc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Sat, 11 Nov 2023 at 18:42, Thomas George
<debianl...@mailfence.com> wrote:
>> I downloaded the google-chrome deb file to /opt/
Why did you put the chrome.deb in /opt? You found have just kept it in
your downloads folder. When you use apt to install the chrome.deb
package it will automatically install the software into a directory on
/opt.
>>
>> used dpkg to install the program.
>>
>> initial attempt failed, two lib files missing.
>>
>> added the sbin entries to path and tried again
>Hi, the 'apt install' command does have the capability to install a
local .deb
>package file together with its dependencies if they are available in
>the configured repositories.
>This capability seems to be not mentioned in the manpages
>of 'apt' or 'apt-get' [1].
>Looking for an authoritative source of information to show you,
>I found only this:
>
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianPackageManagement#Installing_and_removing_packages
>which says:
> You can also install a .deb file with:
> # apt install </path/to/deb/file/debfile.deb>
>My understanding is that the <target> must look like a pathname.
>So, to install 'debfile.deb' in the current directory, it should look
like
> apt install ./debfile.deb
>Maybe someone else knows where the authoritative documentation
>of this capability can be read, if there is any.
>Maybe someone else knows why this isn't documented in the manpages.
>I have a hazy recollection of possibly reading sometime that 'apt'
>authors might
>intend to rewrite the package regex handling in future, so maybe how this
>works might change, so that might be why it hasn't been documented.
>[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=874763
