How do I install a .deb package that isn't in a repository?

[Michael Vogt]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 12:26:27PM +0000, Neil Woolford wrote:
> Hi,
Hi,
 
> I am one of those odd souls who rather likes the Opera browser.
> 
> I can download a Debian package from the Opera website.
> 
> Ideally I'd like to be consistent in the way I install packages, and use
> Synaptic to do the job.  In fact the file associations are set up so that
> Debian packages should open with Synaptic.  If I double-click the file
> in the browser I get an error message that Synaptic must be run as root.
> 
> Trying to drag and drop to an open Synaptic doesn't work either.

This is a feature we plan to implement in the future. It's a bit
tricky to get it right(tm) as it will have to correctly handle all
dependencies of the file as well (see debian #47379 for details).
 
> How do I get Synaptic to find the package?  A lone package doesn't
> seem to be addable as a repository.  Can I build a little local repository
> that just contains the package I'm interested in?  Or should I just use
> sudo dpkg from the command line?

Both ways work, either use "sudo dpkg -i packagename.deb" or build a
local repository.

> Neil
Michael



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