How to install a pacjage I compiled

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 5 Apr 2020 21:18:16 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>On Sun, 5 Apr 2020 15:00:31 -0400, stan wrote:
>>I am trying to get a package I compiled with changes installed:
>>
>>root at openssl-test:~/src# apt-get install --reinstall
>>./openssl_1.1.1d-0+deb10u2_amd64.deb  
>
>'apt-get' can not be used to install a local package.
>
>As root use 'apt' if dependencies from repos are needed, 'dpkg' only if
>no dependencies from repos should be neede, you also could use 'gdebi'
>to install a local package and it's dependencies from repositories.

As already pointed out by somebody else, if you bump the package
release, you don't need to add the 'reinstall' option.