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

[Robert Heller]

At Mon, 26 Apr 2021 12:18:23 +0100 "Ubuntu user technical support,? not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> 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?

Yes, from the ODA website:

https://www.opendesign.com/guestfiles/oda_drawings_explorer

I did it on a freshly installed 20.10 VM (minimum desktop install).

> 
> Colin
> 

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