finding/installing "virtual packages"

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 5 Sep 2016 20:29:59 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
>Unless you need a version other than 4.0.1 that is.

If another version is weanted, then there's a command line
tool for installing a downloaded package.deb available, that does
resolve dependencies, if those are available by the repositories.

  http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/man1/gdebi.1.html
  http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/gdebi

I never used this tool. You could also run

  sudo dpkg -i --force-depends package.deb
  sudo apt -f install
  sudo dpkg --configure -a

Regards,
Ralf