configuring apt/installing local files

[Sasha Tsykin]

Paul Kaplan wrote:
> I am switching from an rpm based distro.  I'm used to downloading rpm files 
> locally and then installing them from command line.
>
> I downloaded a deb file for the opera browser and added the following to the 
> apt sources.list file
>
> deb file:<directory containing deb> local universe
>
> When I searched for opera in Adept it doesn't appear.
>
> How do I install a deb file that isn't in a standard repository?
> Paul
>   
The repositories do not work like that, you need to form actually lists 
of the programs etc. Far easier is to go to the directory where the 
package is and type sudo dpkg -i <packagename> Apt-get can only fetch 
files from actual repositories. Incidentally, before installing anything 
from apt-get, you need to update it (sudo apt-get update) so it has the 
latest package lists.

Sasha