Installing .deb files

[Steven Pasternak]

Cliff Wade wrote:
>
>
> On 10/25/06, *Steven Pasternak* <stevenp500 at bellsouth.net 
> <mailto:stevenp500 at bellsouth.net>> wrote:
>
>     Hi! On Kubuntu 6.06, is there a half-descent way to install a .deb
>     file?
>     The menu from konqueror is kinda sad in that it doesn't try to use
>     apt-get (or anything else) to resolve dependencies, just says they
>     aren't there. Fedora has a simple tool that uses yum (basically
>     apt for
>     rpm) to download the missing packages. Does Kubuntu have something
>     like
>     that, or will they ever? Thanks!
>     -Steven
>
>
>
> sudo dpkg -i file.deb 
>
> That's the easiest way of course.  You might even be able to do sudo 
> apt-get install file.deb to cure the deps it needs.
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I know that, I meant a graphical tool, like just clicking on it and 
having a nice gui install it and all its dependencies.