[Lilug] Question about roll-your-own deb packages

[Chris McNamara]

Kenneth Downs wrote:
> We've got a debian package here for Andromeda that's just about ready to 
> go.
> 
> But we do have a strange issue, we can't figure out which command-line 
> tool to use.  If we double-click on the deb package in Nautilus, Gnome's 
> GDeb program comes up and does everything.
> 
> However, neither of these seems to work;
> 
> $ sudo apititude install filename.deb
> $ sudo apt-get insall filename.deb
> 
> Apparently dpkg is not meant for this, it does not go after dependencies.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
use the command line version of Gdeb instead of the gtk version:
$ sudo gdebi filename.deb