is there a way to install packages store on your HD with apt-get, like a "apt-get install ./package.deb ? If not how to handle the dependances in a very very easy way.

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usually i do dpkg -i it'll fail saying it needs dependancies. -- but when you then do an apt-get update it'll say at the end something like "dependacies are ready to install" i think it then advises to use apt-get install -f or --auto something, i forget (im on a rpm distro at the moment).

Once thats done, i use the dpkg -i again.

Worked fine for me last few years.

edit: looking a bit further, apparently a tool called "gdebi" can do this as "gdebi [deb file]"

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Thanks i did the same by "error" dpkg then apt-get install -f and it worked. – Louis Oct 7 '10 at 8:22
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