Installing DEBS

[Daniel Robitaille]

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 07:11:31 +0000, Ken Adams <ken at familyadams.com> wrote:
> HI People.
> 
> I am try to add a new repository for one particular piece of software
> and am having trouble. the full URL is...
> 
> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/a/amsn/
> 
> If I can't add this as a repository then I must ask a "DEB based Distro"
> newbie question...

have you enabled "universe" in your /etc/apt/sources.list ?

After it has been enables, then you can use synaptic to install the
package "amsn".
Or you can do from the command line:
  apt-get update
  apt-get install amsn



> Once I have downloaded a .deb file, how the heck do I install it.

but if you really want to do it manually, "dpkg -i whatever.deb" is
the way to install a deb file manually.