[kwlug-disc] Interesting problem i had yesterday with Ubuntu

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You can just say apt install ./debfile NOTE ./ preceding the deb file.



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On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 5:13 PM Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 5:07 PM R. Brent Clements <rbclemen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks everyone for the feedback.  I just have to be more careful.  I
>> have installed packages directly from .deb files, (at least Dropbox and
>> possibly others), and the software that I was installing when it happened
>> is the latest version of KiCAD from their repository.
>>
>
> If you install directly from .deb, then make sure that you install gdebi,
> and use it to install the .deb.
> That way, it will make sure that dependencies are installed too.
>
> But that approach still suffers from suboptimal package discipline, and
> you will still get surprises, at least when compared to the official Ubuntu
> repos.
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