On the CLI the command would be sudo dpkg -i file.deb
If you are downloading the package using a browser, the gdebi program will usually take care of it for you. Sean On 07/28/2010 06:44 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > As you all well know I know little about the debian and the ubuntus. I > learn what I need to assist my wife on her xubuntu system, but I'm not > qualified as a SysAdmin with these distributions. > > What is the command for a user to install a downloaded .deb package? I > know it's not 'apt-get install' because the package (two actually) are > manually downloaded from osuosl.edu. Is it 'dpkg' or something different? > > TIA, > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
