finding/installing "virtual packages"
Petter Adsen
petter at synth.no
Tue Sep 6 07:01:58 UTC 2016
On Mon, 5 Sep 2016 23:33:53 +0200
Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet at zoho.com> wrote:
> 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
You can also do this in one step, with 'sudo apt install ./file.deb'
Petter
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