Updated synaptic package

Martin Pitt martin.pitt at canonical.com
Wed Sep 22 11:14:48 UTC 2004


Hi Etienne!

On 2004-09-22 11:32 +0200, etienne wrote:
> apt newbie question:
> i am not sure how to install the package properly. I don't won't to
> broke my Ubuntu apt db.
> 
> dpkg -i is the right way?

Yes, a simple 

  sudo dpkg -i synaptic_0.53.4-1ubuntu1_i386.deb

will install it. Since Michael did not set up an apt repository (which
does not really make sense just for one temporary package), you cannot
use apt for this.

Martin

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