Comments on: 3 Command Line Tools to Install Deb Packages in Ubuntu

By: dragonmouth

dragonmouth — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 12:28:57 +0000

It's so much easier using Synaptic. No esoteric, unintuitive commands to learn, just click and go.

By: Douglas Brown

Douglas Brown — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 12:49:20 +0000

I installed the latest 4.16 version of 'devede' using gdebi. It doesn't work on my distro (Mint 18.02) and now I want to go back to version 4.4 in the repository but I cannot uninstall version 4.16:

$ sudo apt purge devede
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package 'devede' is not installed, so not removed
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove, and 76 not to upgrade.

The same result for the other two methods ("it's not installed"), and yet I can run it from the "start" menu - so Mint can find it somehow. It seems odd to me that gdebi can install something yet not provide any means to uninstall it. But gripes aside, what the heck do I do now?

By: Jon D

Jon D — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 18:37:49 +0000

Thanks for this, it helped me to write a little script to update apt-get, install a dependency for my tiny laptop, and install and start zoom with just one command on a minimal live USB distribution.

# vi updateAndZoom.sh

Content of updateAndZoom.sh

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libxcb-xtest0      ## you may have different dependencies
sudo gdebi zoom_amd64.deb               ## already in the same file folder on the USB
zoom
chmod +x updateAndZoom.sh               ##code to run once updateAndZoom.sh saved
sudo bash ./updateAndZoom.sh             ##  USB Live Distro path doesn't include file folder

Thanks again

By: J@c1naB0X

J@c1naB0X — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 12:03:42 +0000

Good information thank you. BTW, which font did you use in the terminal? (Green text) It looks great!

I use the larabie font bold in Kali but it just doesn’t look quite as bold and spaced as your font :-)

By: Aaron Kili

Aaron Kili — Thu, 26 Apr 2018 06:50:23 +0000

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