• Successful_Try543@feddit.org
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    11 hours ago

    @[email protected]

    dpkg doesn’t resolve dependencies (that’s a feature of apt) which means that if you install a Debian package with dpkg, you’ll have to manually install all dependencies first, and they won’t be marked as automatically installed

    Usually installing a manually downloaded package and its dependencies works like this:
    # dpkg -i package-file.deb
    # apt-get -f install

    So apt-get can be used to install missing dependencies afterwards while marking them as automatically installed.

    • dan@upvote.au
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      6 hours ago

      That works, but why do that when you could just do apt install ./package-file.deb?