Installing .deb packages with apt-get

[Dotan Cohen]

On 17/05/07, debian <debiani386 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 17:15 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > How does one install .deb packages with apt-get? I'd like to use the
> > package manager to install so that it's database will stay compete. In
> > Fedora yum has a localinstall option that installs an .rpm package
> > with yum instead of using RPM.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Dotan Cohen
> >
> > http://lyricslist.com/
> > http://what-is-what.com/
> >
> heres whatcha do:
>
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get install [package name]
>
> when installing the [package name] do not include the file extension
>
> HTH
> --cj
>

As mentioned twice previously in this thread, that will not install a
local package.

Dotan Cohen

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