On Friday 17 August 2018 05:29:07 Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2018-08-13 09:38:48 -0300, Samuel Henrique wrote: > > If you pass a file as parameter to apt install, like: > > apt install ./package.deb > > It will work, at least on buster. > > And the "./" is important, otherwise it will not work (until now, > for this reason, I didn't know that passing a file was supported). > I don't know the exact rule, but it seems that the pathname needs > to start with either "/", "./" or "../".
The effect is where the search for the given file is anchored just a plain filename is assumed to be someplace in the $PATH / means its in the root directory ./ means its in the current directory the shell is cd'd to ../ means its one directory level above the currently cd'd to directory -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>