Mark Brier (Lists) wrote: > Not sure exactly how it works, but the second command installs the > failed deb from the first command, so apt-get does the installation. > It's almost as if dpkg saves the deb in some kind of cache. More > hardened deb-heads might be able to explain this.
Seems an odd way to work, but like I said better than RPM! Shame there isn't a better tool for installing 3rd party .deb files with dependencies, although a script that does the two steps described here would be pretty trivial to knock up myself. (Ideally it wouldn't complain about errors in the first step that the second was going to fix, though, nor continue at all if it couldn't resolve all dependencies.) -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0845 45 89 555 Registered in England (0456 0902) at 13 Clarke Rd, Milton Keynes, MK1 1LG _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
