> I just use dpkg -i but that’s not exactly something you can find out without dedicated research. Downloading individual DEB files is not a great way to go, b

> I just use dpkg -i but that’s not exactly something you can find out without dedicated research. Downloading individual DEB files is not a great way to go, but if you must, you're better off using something like gdebi than dpkg to install them. If you use gdebi, apt will still try to resolve dependencies when installing the package for you. With dpkg, you have to do all of that manually, so dpkg is only useful for installing the worst kinds of DEB files (ones that ignore the real packaging system and bundle all of their dependencies). If you only want the command line utility instead of the GUI DEB file handler, grab gdebi-core. I also wanna return to this, briefly: > not exactly something you can find out without dedicated research. It bugs the hell out of me that some distros (like the Debian that comes on WSL, for example) does not include absolutely basic Unix essentials like the man command and friends. Because this shouldn't be something that takes extended research. The old Unix tools for documenting the system internally can handle this perfectly! If you run apropos deb you will get a nice short list of things used for working with DEB files, including dpkg. So even if it's not the best tool it should be at least enough to find something for working with those files, without having to Google around for a long time or install any new software.