48 .deb's to install

[ToddAndMargo]

Hi All,

I downloaded the latest .deb of Open Office. It has 48 zillion (okay, only 48, but who is doing the whining her!) .deb's to install. Please do not tell me I have to do them all one at a time! Is there a equivalent to Red Hat's "rpm -ivh *.rpm" I can use? I tried "gdebi *.deb" but it told me it could not find "*.deb".

Many thanks,
-T

[dibl]

Re: 48 .deb's to install

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

in the applicable directory should do the trick.

[ToddAndMargo]

Re: 48 .deb's to install

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

in the applicable directory should do the trick.

Thank you!

Follow up question: will "dpkg" go out to the internet, download, and revolve any dependencies?

-T

[dibl]

Re: 48 .deb's to install

No, no no - dpkg is the Debian package manager, but it is not a "fetcher".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dpkg

To fetch packages, you need (a) suitable source repositories established, and (b) apt-get or aptitude for retrieving and handling the packages.

[ToddAndMargo]

Re: 48 .deb's to install

No, no no - dpkg is the Debian package manager, but it is not a "fetcher".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dpkg

To fetch packages, you need (a) suitable source repositories established, and (b) apt-get or aptitude for retrieving and handling the packages.

Thank you! I am slowly coming up to speed. :-)

-T