finding/installing "virtual packages"

[Petter Adsen]

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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