20.10: Installing a .deb with dependencies -- HowTo?

[Robert Heller]

At Fri, 23 Apr 2021 20:07:36 +0100 "Ubuntu user technical support,? not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> I use gdebi-gtk

That is presably a GUI tool (the gtk suggests that).  I am not interested in a 
GUI tool.

> 
> P
> 
> On 23 April 2021 20:02:09 Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
> 
> > How does one install a local .deb file that has dependencies under 20.10?
> >
> > With 18.04, doing 'sudo apt install whatever.deb' works (it automagically
> > handles the deps), but this fails with 20.10. And 'sudo dpkg -i whatever.deb'
> > also fails (it does list dependencies) (with older versions, it 'half
> > installs', so a later apt or apt-get install with no args fetching the deps
> > and completes the install). Is it really a two step process with
> > the new version?  What a pain...
> >
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