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

[Tom H]

On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 9:03 PM 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...

apt-get install ./some.deb (or "apt install ./some.deb")