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bumpkin
July 31st, 2009, 05:06 AM
I have down loaded several deb files for jaunty and am trying to get the various package managers install it. None will install it as the deb files can not be found. Any way to make synaptic or apt-get recognize this deb file?

Will "file-roller -a=<archive> <filename>.deb " work?

I don't know what "<archive>" should be for apt-get.

Partyboi2
July 31st, 2009, 10:20 AM
Hi, could you not use dpkg to install the deb packages?
cd to location of download debs eg

cd ~/Desktop

sudo dpkg -i package

spcwingo
July 31st, 2009, 12:55 PM
If you have all the debs in the same directory you could just:


cd /path/to/directory

followed by:


sudo dpkg -i ./*.deb

bumpkin
August 1st, 2009, 06:41 PM
dpkg worked.

Thanks!