[Bug 598581] Re: RFE: apt-get install local .deb file

[Mikaela Suomalainen]

This is something that I miss from Fedora which I used for some time.
With it you could use "yum install package.rpm" which would do this.
Later they moved to dnf which probably works the same way.

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Title:
  RFE: apt-get install local .deb file

Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “apt” package in Debian:
  New

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: apt

  A really useful enhancement to apt-get would be to allow the
  installation of .deb packages, but with apt's clever abilities.

  For example:
      apt-get install ./some_custom_pkg.deb
  would install it, provided it isn't already present (similar to dpkg -iE), but with the advantage of doing dependency resolution, and automatically downloading the requirements.

  For comparison, Mandriva's  urpmi tool does precisely this.

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