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

[Colin Law]

On Mon, 26 Apr 2021 at 12:13, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

I think that is something that most of us missed.  In that case that
is a bug in dpkg (or a breaking change that I have not yet
encountered).  Presumably you can't reproduce this as you have now
installed the dependencies.  Is the deb file available for download
somewhere?

Colin