Topic: Useful utilities suggestions - Gdebi

Hi, everyone. smile

Today I face some problem about .deb installation, that well known "dependencies hell" lol
If you download third party .deb files from internet, you can't install that files manually.
Because of dependencies requirement, you can't solve this problem easily.

There is a small size utility that included in Ubuntu standard by default, called "gdebi".
It works as dependencies solver by using APT and dpkg.
Gdebi is front-end of gdebi-core, command line utility which gdebi depends on.
And it associates with .deb file by MIME-types, so you can right click .deb file to install by your file browser.

I hope that my suggestions may be useful to #! Linux completion.

Pls bear to my English, I'm just a #! Tux rider from Thailand.
(less than 5% can communicate in English tongue)

Re: Useful utilities suggestions - Gdebi

Hi trendyteddy

It is true what they say, great minds think alike. Thank you for the suggestion, it is appreciated. smile

Re: Useful utilities suggestions - Gdebi

corenominal wrote:

Hi trendyteddy

It is true what they say, great minds think alike. Thank you for the suggestion, it is appreciated. smile

Oh, I'm sorry. I should try searching keywords before asking some question. tongue

Pls bear to my English, I'm just a #! Tux rider from Thailand.
(less than 5% can communicate in English tongue)

Re: Useful utilities suggestions - Gdebi

trendyteddy wrote:

Oh, I'm sorry. I should try searching keywords before asking some question. tongue

No worries, it is good to clarify these matters. smile

Re: Useful utilities suggestions - Gdebi

That's a good one, I use it all the time.  getdeb.net is a good place to go for useful debs too.