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

[Robert Heller]

At Mon, 26 Apr 2021 00:34:10 +0200 "Ubuntu user technical support,? not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, 23 Apr 2021 at 21:03, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
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> > How does one install a local .deb file that has dependencies under 20.10?
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> Literally answering, not trying to solve the issue...
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> Me?
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> dpkg -i packagename.deb
> apt install -f

With 20.10 this does not work.  dpkg -i packagename.deb complains about unmet 
deps.  I ended up like this:

dpkg -i packagename.deb
(fails, but list deps)
apt install <deps listed above>
dpkg -i packagename.deb

Appearently, the "local install magic" with apt is that you need to include 
the directory (even when it is .):

apt install ./packagename.deb

This is not actually documented anywhere.

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