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

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 03:01:42PM -0400, Robert Heller 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.

If the package is in the current directory, then you need to use "sudo
apt install ./whatever.deb" rather than omitting the "./".  But omitting
the "./" didn't work in 18.04 either.  When you say "this fails", could
you go into more detail?  What exact error message do you get?

The "apt install ./whatever.deb" form is tested by apt's test suite, so
should still work fine.

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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]