On 15 February 2014 13:41, Mike <m...@olddog.name> wrote:
> I am trying to install a .deb package from the local hard drive using dpkg
> -i <package>.deb.
>
> It appears to read the package and then gives me a list of dependencies that
> are missing and that the package cannot be installed.
>
> The problem is that I am trying to move over to Debian from Fedora so am a
> NEWBIE in Debian.
>
> Is there a command in either dpkg or apt-get that will load a .deb from the
> local hard drive and resolve the dependencies? I cannot find it in any man
> package or document, possibly due to being new to this structure.
>
> Thanks
>
> Mike Dwiggins
>
>
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After running dpkg -i do:
apt-get -f install
which should help resolve straightforward issues.
from man apt-get:
-f, --fix-broken
Fix; attempt to correct a system with broken dependencies
in place. This option, when used with install/remove, can omit any
packages to permit APT to deduce a likely solution. If
packages are specified, these have to completely correct the problem.
The
option is sometimes necessary when running APT for the
first time; APT itself does not allow broken package dependencies to
exist
on a system. It is possible that a system's dependency
structure can be so corrupt as to require manual intervention (which
usually means using dselect(1) or dpkg --remove to
eliminate some of the offending packages). Use of this option together
with -m
may produce an error in some situations. Configuration
Item: APT::Get::Fix-Broken.
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