Synaptic Package Manager

[Alexandre Franke]

On 9/14/07, Gunawan <jgun98.milis at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have download mc (deb files) from package.

Generally, you don't need to download manually any package. Run
Synaptic and search your program from there, it will be automatically
downloaded and installed. Did you check if your program is available
here prior to downloading a package?

> I  try to install mc using synaptic package manager,
> but don't know where to change or set repositories path.
[...]
> I saved mc files on /home/gun/mc
> can I set repositories into that folder? so I can run this command 'apt-get
> install mc'.

If you really want to install your program from the package you
downloaded, which I wouldn't recommend unless you have a good reason
to do so, you don't need Synaptic but gdebi (double click on the
package should launch it) or dpkg (command line tool, type man dpkg in
a terminal if you choose this way).

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Alexandre Franke
GNU/Linux user #390077