How to install a .deb package

[Christoph Wiesen]

Hello,

yes, basically what you have to do is similar to the rpm - command, so when 
you are in the directory where the deb is you enter:

sudo dpkg -i <packagename>.deb

If there are no further dependencies your package will be installed.

Anyway as I guess from your comment about Synaptic, that the package actually 
is in the repositories you should try first to do:

sudo apt-get install <programname>
(no .deb)

Maybe you should try to search for the exact name of the program first:

apt-cache search <what-you-want>

So I don't know what your Synaptic (is it really that, or is it Kynaptic on 
Kubuntu?) does maybe this helps.

Cheers,
Chris

Am Sonntag 26 Juni 2005 13:12 schrieb Linux-User:
>  Hello,
>
>  i´ve installed Thunderbird by Synaptec.
>
>  The problem with Synaptec is that, i doesn´t find pakages anymore.
>  So i´ve search with google for other .deb packages....
>  (normally i used an RPM Distribution)
>  When i klick on the ".deb" package,it wont install it.
>
>  Muss i install the package with the Konsole  such like "rpm -Uhv ****.RPM"
> RPM based Linux does?