Newbie package question

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 12:39:32PM -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> I saw elsewhere that "firestarter" was a good package to have as
> a firewall configuration tool.
> 
> I got the .deb package.
> 
> Now what do I do with it.  All the tools I already know (synaptic, apt-get)
> seem to want to download their own, not use a file injected locally.

  dpkg -i foo.deb

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]