[PLUG] User Install of .deb Files in Xubuntu

[Sean Whitney]

On the CLI the command would be

sudo dpkg -i file.deb

If you are downloading the package using a browser, the gdebi program
will usually take care of it for you.


Sean

On 07/28/2010 06:44 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
>    As you all well know I know little about the debian and the ubuntus. I
> learn what I need to assist my wife on her xubuntu system, but I'm not
> qualified as a SysAdmin with these distributions.
> 
>    What is the command for a user to install a downloaded .deb package? I
> know it's not 'apt-get install' because the package (two actually) are
> manually downloaded from osuosl.edu. Is it 'dpkg' or something different?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Rich
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