apt_package should support local installation of deb packages providing a less horrible interface than apt itself #5760
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Focus: Resources
Platform: Debian-like
Priority: Medium
Triage: Feature Request
Indicates an issue requesting new functionality.
see #5685
the typical way that ubuntu/debian admins install a local package on the command line and get depsolving is to either:
apt-get install -f ./package.deb
and have that failapt-get -yf install
when the former failsor to:
apt-get install package
see https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/159094/how-to-install-a-deb-file-by-dpkg-i-or-by-apt
we should fix it so that users can just:
and have it work the same way that yum supports
localinstall
of rpms transparently.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: