On 09.05.17 11:55, Michele Bert via luv-main wrote:
2017-05-09 11:51 GMT+02:00 Andrew Pam via luv-main <luv-main@luv.asn.au>:
On 09/05/17 19:46, Andrew Greig via luv-main wrote:
17 years of RPM has not equipped me for this. So I would appreciate hearing where I have gone wrong and how I could get it right.
It's possible the default system package manager isn't set to run when you click on a deb package. If all else fails, you can install "gdebi" which is a graphical deb package installer and use that!
Or open a terminal and run:
sudo dpkg --install <full-package-path>
Although using dpkg for some operations, I've never resorted to it for installation. The need for <full-package-path>, whatever it is, would throw me. Some use its front-end "aptitude", but many just use apt-get, first updating the lists for the latest version, then installing: # apt-get update # apt-get --install package-name where package-name may be elicited by an: $ apt-cache search <some-part-of-the-expected-name> | more Aptitude is supposed to be more "high level" or some such, but I've never actually seen a case demonstrating that. It would surprise me if dpkg did not also need some form of update, to avoid fetching an old package version. Erik