[ale] installing debian packages

[Arafat]

I think the command is

dpkg -i mypackagename_version.deb

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From: owner-ale at ale.org [mailto:owner-ale at ale.org]On Behalf Of Wandered
To: ale at ale.org
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Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 9:52 AM
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Subject: [ale] installing debian packages


Brand new to Debian, since it's the only thing that would successfully
load on a little 486 laptop I've got.  I'm trying to install a .deb
package on a machine.  My expectation was that I could execute something
like:

INSTALLPKG package.deb

yet I can't find anything that will let me do that.  dselect is really
ugly and 'apt install' apparently has to have some knowledge of the
package in an existing database.

Looking for the Debian version of:

rpm -ihv package.rpm

Pointers would be appreciated.

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