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

[Robert Heller]

At Mon, 26 Apr 2021 09:06:38 +0200 "Ubuntu user technical support,? not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> hi,
> Am Sonntag, den 25.04.2021, 20:19 -0400 schrieb Robert Heller:
> > dpkg -i packagename.deb
> > (fails, but list deps)
> 
> at which point you should "apt -f install" (-f -> "--fix-broken") to
> fix the missing dependencies automatically ;)

'dpkg -i packagename.deb' did not get far enough for there to be anything 
broken to fix.

> 
> though as others said, since 16.04 you should be able to simply:Â 
> 
> apt install ./packagename.deb
> 

Which is NOT DOCUMENTED!

> without jumping through that extra dpkg hoop ...
> 
> ciao
> 	oli

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