Debian apt-get question

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Author: Bart Garst
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Subject: Debian apt-get question
On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 02:12, der.hans wrote:
> Am 08. Jan, 1999 schw=E4tzte Frank Burton so:
>=20
> > I am running a flavor of Deb that is unstable. I am loving the apt-get
> > system. However there are some packages that I would like to have that =

I
> > can't get using apt-get (mplayer and synce for example) I googled and
> > found the programs I want and they are available as .deb packages but I
> > have no idea how to install them. I could compile the source I guess (
>=20


You can install a deb package you downloaded with
>$ dpkg -i packagename.deb

You won't get updates this way though (since it's not found in the
repositories in your 'sources.list').

You can later remove that package with
>$ apt-get remove packagename


Bart