But to answer the question of what happens if you just install a .deb package, I can let you know from experience that it can cause subtle breaks of your system, especially if it updates often... like Ubuntu Tweak-- an excellent program btw-- for example. At least it wasn't in the depositories when I first installed it.
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Mike Bigalke <[email protected]> wrote: > Robert, I actually had to install VBox from the .deb package because I > couldn't get the repository version running on Ubuntu 8.04. Remember to > make the download executable before trying to install. > > Having just found out that VMware doesn't support serial ports unless that > serial port is exclusively used by a printer, I wonder if VBox does. In my > case the serial port was to be used by a software key and a printer. > I suspect that VBox doesn't either. > > > > On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 11:51 AM, David Dooling < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 10:45:10AM -0500, Robert Citek wrote: >> > On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 10:36 AM, David Dooling < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> > > It should not get confused, it will likely just state that a newer >> > > version than the one available from the repository is installed. >> > >> > I downloaded the .deb and tried installing. dpkg refused to install >> > it as the existing version had to be removed first. >> >> That is expected (apt does this for you, in a forcible way since >> removing may break dependencies that the subsequent install will fix). >> >> My experience in doing things like this (other than you don't have to >> do it too often (most people make the repos)) is that if you are >> installing a newer package than the one available in the repo, it >> shows up as normal. If you are installing a package that is not >> available in the repo, it shows up as an ``Obsolete and Locally >> Created Package''. If a newer one shows up in the repo at some point, >> apt does the right thing. >> >> -- >> David Dooling >> http://www.politigenomics.com/ >> >> >> >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
