20.10: Installing a .deb with dependencies -- HowTo?

[Peter Flynn]

I use gdebi-gtk

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On 23 April 2021 20:02:09 Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:

> How does one install a local .deb file that has dependencies under 20.10?
>
> With 18.04, doing 'sudo apt install whatever.deb' works (it automagically
> handles the deps), but this fails with 20.10. And 'sudo dpkg -i whatever.deb'
> also fails (it does list dependencies) (with older versions, it 'half
> installs', so a later apt or apt-get install with no args fetching the deps
> and completes the install). Is it really a two step process with
> the new version?  What a pain...
>
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