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On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 07:27:47 -0600
"Dennis G. Wicks" wrote:

> Greetings;
>
> I seem to remember that I installed programs/packages
> directly from .deb files that I downloaded from SourceForge
> etc. but I can't recall the procedure.
>
> Can anyone refresh my memory?

dpkg -i package.deb

Graham

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How to install from .deb file

Submitted by Sebastian Daehne on Mon, 2007-12-03 09:04.

Dennis,

>I seem to remember that I installed programs/packages
>directly from .deb files that I downloaded from SourceForge
>etc. but I can't recall the procedure.
as root: dpkg -i thenewprogram.deb

regards

Sebastian

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How to install from .deb file

Submitted by Dennis G. Wicks on Mon, 2007-12-03 09:04.

Greetings;

I seem to remember that I installed programs/packages
directly from .deb files that I downloaded from SourceForge
etc. but I can't recall the procedure.

Can anyone refresh my memory?

TIA,
Dennis

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