Easy third-party package installer for debian-based distributions

[Dennis Kaarsemaker]

On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 22:47 +0200, Sami Dalouche wrote:

> - What do you think about this system, which would actually be a 1 or 2 hour
> hack, and be potentially very useful at helping people at installing packages ? 

It would help nothing at all. All dependency information is in the .deb
file and a program should use that. The problem is that 3rd party
packagers often don't put the (correct) info in their debfiles. That
would not change with an .mdeb file either.

Currently the following can be done:
dpkg -i filename.deb
[errors out]
apt-get -f install
[fixes dependency errors and completes the instalation of filename.deb]

What is really needed is a GUI that takes a .deb, fetches the
dependencies via apt and installs the deb. That would however still not
solve the problem of missing information in the .deb file. 

-- 
Dennis K.
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