[Aptitude-devel] Bug#254888: /Bug#337037: aptitude should allow install local .deb files, calculate its dependences and install them

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

Cesar Martinez Izquierdo wrote in June 2004:
> Hello, I think that it would be nice that aptitude could install
> local .deb files.

Herman Robak wrote in November 2005:
> [...] aptitude package_file.deb should install the package file
> package_file.deb [...] and all its dependencies, if available.

JFTR: This functionality is already present in Debian by the tool
"gdebi" from the package "gdebi-core". (The package "gdebi" contains
the GNOME GUI for gdebi.)

(gdebi was not available back when the first wishlist bug reports
about this were filed. :-)

		Regards, Axel
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