Monday, 11 October 2010
Installing .deb package in ubuntu with dpkg
You can use dpkg, a command line tool to manage the packages, in order to install .deb packages in your ubuntu linux distro.
dpkg is a tool to install, build, remove and manage Debian packages. The primary and more user-friendly front-end for dpkg is aptitude. dpkg itself is controlled entirely via command line parameters, which consist of exactly one action and zero or more options. The action-parameter tells dpkg what to do and options control the behavior of the action in some way.
In order to install the .deb package, you need to use -i parameter with the dpkg command as below:
Also, you can install the multiple packages directly by issuing the command as below:
Hope this helps you. :)
dpkg is a tool to install, build, remove and manage Debian packages. The primary and more user-friendly front-end for dpkg is aptitude. dpkg itself is controlled entirely via command line parameters, which consist of exactly one action and zero or more options. The action-parameter tells dpkg what to do and options control the behavior of the action in some way.
In order to install the .deb package, you need to use -i parameter with the dpkg command as below:
cd /home/samar/Downloads/
sudo dpkg -i skype-ubuntu-intrepid_2.1.0.81-1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i skype-ubuntu-intrepid_2.1.0.81-1_amd64.deb
Also, you can install the multiple packages directly by issuing the command as below:
cd /home/samar/Downloads/
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
Hope this helps you. :)
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