Can't Get Software Installed

[tlinux]

I'm trying to install packages in Kubuntu 7.04 and am having troubles. I'm not connected to the Internet yet and am trying to set up such a connection. I need to use a browser and Konqueror may have a bug. I want to install Firefox and test it. I've copied the Firefox tar ball and checkinstall into Kubuntu. I was going to try and convert the tar ball to a deb package first. This is the terminal output I got:

tom@emachine:~$ cd /home/tom
tom@emachine:~$ ls -l
total 9781
-rwxr-xr-x 1 tom tom 5974 2007-05-24 18:24 aaa_base_1.0-1.deb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 tom tom 123138 2007-05-24 18:24 checkinstall_1.6.1-1_i386.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 tom tom 2117 2007-05-20 08:44 copy2
drwxr-xr-x 2 tom tom 456 2007-05-20 23:12 debPackages
drwx------ 3 tom tom 296 2007-05-24 19:12 Desktop
-rwxr-xr-x 1 tom tom 184731 2007-05-20 18:57 dldrinstall.run
drwxr-xr-x 3 tom tom 72 2007-05-24 18:59 firefox-2.0.0.3
-rwxr-xr-x 1 tom tom 9651693 2007-05-24 18:08 firefox-2.0.0.3.tar.gz
drwxr-xr-x 3 tom tom 224 2007-05-19 21:49 ndiswrapper
-rw-r--r-- 1 tom tom 0 2007-05-24 18:38 pkgsone
-rw-r--r-- 1 tom tom 21999 2007-05-20 08:33 print.pdf
drwxr-xr-x 4 tom tom 352 2007-05-20 19:28 WG121V200
tom@emachine:~$[font=Verdana][font=Verdana
tom@emachine:~$ sudo apt-get install checkinstall_1.6.1-1_i386.deb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package checkinstall_1.6.1-1_i386.deb

The error says it can't find the checkinstall package when it's clearly shown to be in that directory by the listing above. Why can't it find the package?

Next I tried to unpack the tar ball. It contained a firefox-bin file. I tried to execute it and got this error message:

./firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libmozjs.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Again, it says it can't find a file (libmozjs.so) although that file was in the tar ball and is in the same directory as firefox-bin.

I'm obviously confused about why these files can't be found. What am I doing wrong and what do I need to do to solve this problem?

Thank you.

[SheeEttin]

Re: Can't Get Software Installed

The apt-get command fetches packages from a repository, not installs them from a local file. (Common mistake.)

For local installation, you want to use "sudo dpkg -i checkinstall_1.6.1-1_i386.deb".

[tlinux]

Re: Can't Get Software Installed

The apt-get command fetches packages from a repository, not installs them from a local file. (Common mistake.)

For local installation, you want to use "sudo dpkg -i checkinstall_1.6.1-1_i386.deb".

This worked

Thanks.