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

[Robert Heller]

At Sat, 24 Apr 2021 09:07:10 +0100 "Ubuntu user technical support,? not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 23 Apr 2021 at 22:36, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > ...
> > The "apt install ./whatever.deb" form is tested by apt's test suite, so
> > should still work fine.
> 
> Interestingly
> man apt
> does not appear to make any reference to installing from a deb file.

Yes.  It does work with a path.  The first time I did it (on my 18.04 system), 
the deb file was not in the current directory and it worked.  Under CentOS, 
yum has a command 'localinstall' for this purpose.  The man pages for apt 
probably need some overhauling.  It would be *nice* to either document how to 
*properly* install from a .deb file OR (really better) have a separate command 
(ala 'localinstall') for doing that.  The current state of affairs is somewhat 
problematical...

> 
> Colin L.
> 

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