How to install a pacjage I compiled

[stan]

On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 09:28:10PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:
> 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.
> 

Still trying to figure out how to properly do that. 1st couple of atempts
resulted in a failure at build time.
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