how to install a .package?

[Mauro Sanna]

On 13 September 2013 11:44, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 09/13/2013 04:16 AM, Mauro Sanna wrote:
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>> I installed a 32-bit program on a 64-bit system and had to install
>> package "ia32-libs".
>>
>> I've installed ia32-libs but the error is the same.
>>
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> Use synaptic. "sudo apt-get install synaptic" which makes package
> management easy. Did you download a .deb file from somewhere and use dpkg
> to install it manually? apt-get should have pulled in every dependency you
> needed. Ric



What I need is to install a package with .package extension, not a .deb
package.

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