Synaptic Package Manager

[Gunawan]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alexandre Franke" <alexandre.franke at gmail.com>
To: "Ubuntu user technical support,not for general discussions" 
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 8:28 AM
Subject: Re: Synaptic Package Manager


> On 9/14/07, Gunawan <jgun98.milis at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have download mc (deb files) from package.
>
> Generally, you don't need to download manually any package. Run
> Synaptic and search your program from there, it will be automatically
> downloaded and installed. Did you check if your program is available
> here prior to downloading a package?
>
>> I  try to install mc using synaptic package manager,
>> but don't know where to change or set repositories path.
> [...]
>> I saved mc files on /home/gun/mc
>> can I set repositories into that folder? so I can run this command 
>> 'apt-get
>> install mc'.
>
> If you really want to install your program from the package you
> downloaded, which I wouldn't recommend unless you have a good reason
> to do so, you don't need Synaptic but gdebi (double click on the
> package should launch it) or dpkg (command line tool, type man dpkg in
> a terminal if you choose this way).
>
> -- 
> Alexandre Franke
> GNU/Linux user #390077

Hi Alexandre, thank you for your fast reply.
I believe you have not read my previous post :). No problem.
I have no internet connection on the pc I have installed ubuntu (at home).
Therefore I need to install additional application offline.
Download the package from here (pssttt office :p). Bring it home and install 
it.
So, I can use dpkg for installing deb files?
Regards,
Gun