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

[Colin Law]

On Mon, 26 Apr 2021, 01:21 Robert Heller, <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:

> At Mon, 26 Apr 2021 00:34:10 +0200 "Ubuntu user technical support,? not
> for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > On Fri, 23 Apr 2021 at 21:03, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > How does one install a local .deb file that has dependencies under
> 20.10?
> >
> > Literally answering, not trying to solve the issue...
> >
> > Me?
> >
> > 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
>
>
> You missed the -f on the suggested command

apt install -f


> Colin


>
>
> 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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