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

[Kenneth Downs]

Chris McNamara wrote:
>
>
> 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

I guess what I don't understand is why the others, aptitude or apt-get, 
simply don't respect the dependencies and install them.  What is the 
magic in gdebi?

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