Ubuntu mono packages

[Ian MacLean]

Thanks guys. I'm still getting some dependency issues - libicu etc but
I'm on the right track.

I tried  dpkg -i *.deb previously but misread the error message and
assumed it wasn't calculating dependencies.

Ian

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 16:04:59 +1000, Jeff Waugh <jeff.waugh at canonical.com> wrote:
> <quote who="Ian MacLean">
> 
> > This will seem like a lame question - but how do I install those packages
> > once I've downloaded them ? I've tried dpkg -i and various incantations of
> > apt-get but one doesn't calculate the dependencies and the other wants to
> > download things.  is there an equivalent of rpm -Uhv *.rpm ?
> 
> Oh, well, what you need to do is:
> 
>   sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list
> 
>   Add this line to your sources.list, there will be a bunch of similar ones
>   for our archives:
> 
>     deb http://www.getsweaaa.com/~tseng/ubuntu/debs ./
> 
>   sudo apt-get update
> 
>   sudo apt-get install muine (or other package names)
> 
> There you go! :-)
> 
> (for what it's worth, and you won't have to use this very often, but the
> equivalent of your rpm command is dpkg -i *.deb)
> 
> 
> 
> - Jeff
> 
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