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apt is your friend. Or apt-get if you prefer old school. Or aptitude if you are willing to learn something pretty powerful.

• readwind 7y ago
  huh how well does that work with individual downloaded *.deb packages? You're probably right, but, the included repos are usually full of outdated versions, if you get a too-new deb, from some experimental site, in terms of Ubuntu freshness, and then no pkgs in the repo will have a new enough version. (In terms of dependencies for the local exteriorally-gotten base pkg.deb and it's deps,) I guess ppa's are a thing, but, yeah, good to be off this train, no disrespects to Ubuntu, if it picks up I will surely be glad, and even, chances are slim, ever use it again. We're all friends, let's say yes to progress, in general, in the right directions.
  • TimWolla 7y ago
    > huh how well does that work with individual downloaded *.deb packages? You can `apt` to install `.deb` files on the local file system using: apt install ./path_to_the.deb
    • readwind 7y ago
      And it will take care of all dependencies? What if the repo packages are version < 2.4 or something, I have ran into that a tons of times. Yeah rather the AUR than the ppas to be frankly these days. I love Ubuntu though, as a general idea. Let's just hope it works sometime. Bit disappointing the last few releases. If it ever truly wasn't. Just gave up after 14.04. Tried to like it but I failed.
    • pbhjpbhj 7y ago
      Since when, that's cool, I've been dpkg-ing my downloads. Then apt-fix-ing them to get necessary dependencies.
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