[wellylug] ubuntu help....

[Grant McLean]

On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 20:49 +1200, Andrej wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 August 2006 20:35, Grant McLean wrote:
> 
> > Agreed.  But if you do end up in possession of a .deb that you
> > want to install on your Ubuntu system then here's a handy tip:
> > right click on the file and select Open with "GDebi Package
> > Installer".  The snazzy little GUI thingy that pop's up will
> > resolve the dependencies for you via apt.  Of course I'm
> > running Gnome, presumably KDE provides similar functionality.
> If the box has no internet access it will resolve nothing ;}

Umm no, as other posters pointed out, if your local CDROM is included in
the system's list of apt repositories then packages from there will be
considered during dependency resolution.

Cheers
Grant