On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 02:21:56PM -0400, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > On 4/21/21, Richmond <richm...@criptext.com> wrote: > > sudo apt install ~/Downloads/zoom_amd64.deb > > I just had to do this AGAIN yesterday. I download the dotDEB file then > "dpkg -i" it. It always fails due to missing dependencies. Somewhere > in the failed effort, the reminder to "apt --fix-broken install" > appears so that's what I do next.
You're doing it the old way. If that works, well, congrats. The modern way is to use apt or apt-get to install the .deb file, as Richmond showed. You need to make sure the pathname of the .deb file that you pass to apt begins with / or ./ or ../ so apt knows it's a pathname and not a package name. Since ~ is expanded to an absolute path (beginning with / ), Richmond's command works just fine.
