[ale] Package manager holy war! (was: Re: md5sum weirdness on firefox)

[Michael B. Trausch]

On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 19:47 -0500, Jim wrote:

> I don't want them to do that.  yum localinstall is too valuable.  I
> have 
> yet to see an apt-get command that will do the same.  I prefer apt
> for 
> most things, if it would just let me install a .deb file and figure
> out 
> the dependencies... 


# dpkg -i local.deb
# apt-get -f install

Should do the trick, if I am reading you right.  Debian's package
management system puts packages in a number of states and is quite
complex, but I have used that above to resolve dependencies for locally
managed packages in the past, as I recall.

    ? Mike

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