Installing downloaded software

I am a Linux and linuxcnc newbie. Am getting familiar with both and plan to build a cnc router. Lots to learn!

I obtained an old Pentium4 computer and have successfully loaded Linux CNC 2.7 Debian wheezy on it. I am not so successfully trying to install other software such as TeamViewer software on this system. I can use Synaptic to install repository software but am unable to figure out how to install a downloaded .deb file.

How do I install a downloaded package onto this system? Have tried the Synaptic Package manager but can't sort out how to select the TeamViewer downloaded package.

Thanks, Andy,
That helps. I used the command line to find and attempt the install of my .deb file. It went through the steps but then failed due to a missing dependency. I'll try that again and will use the apt-get to find and install the dependency first.

I was successful with the Synaptic at installing packages that are in its repository. I couldn't find Team Viewer though. Is it possible to use Synaptic to install a downloaded .deb file?

Team Viewer requires quite a few packages, albeit some should already exist

In a terminal run
sudo apt-get install -y libc6 libgcc1 libasound2 libdbus-1-3 libexpat1 libfontconfig1 libfreetype6 libjpeg62 libpng12-0 libsm6 libxdamage1 libxext6 libxfixes3 libxinerama1 libxrandr2 libxrender1 libxtst6 zlib1g

Then run
sudo dpkg -i /path/to/deb.deb
again

You could try to install via synaptic, but setting it up to install from a static location rather than a repo, is not as easy as just doing the above

regards

to install teamviewer download
download.teamviewer.com/download/teamviewer_i386.deb
then from a terminal run
dpkg -i teamviewer_linux.deb

cncbasher wrote:

to install teamviewer download
download.teamviewer.com/download/teamviewer_i386.deb
then from a terminal run
dpkg -i teamviewer_linux.deb

The point is that dpkg will not install dependencies.

Either you pre-install all the dependencies from the control file as per my last post, or you try running
sudo apt-get -f install
and hopefully apt-get will resolve the missing dependencies.

I prefer a bit of certainty, 'sudo apt-get -f install' can on occasions do some very funny things, removing all sorts of packages you want because they are listed in dependencies of a package it has replaced etc.

Good information from everyone! Thanks.

I was not aware that installing non-repository packages with Synaptic was that much more difficult. I'll use the command line approach.

One other question that this brings up,mthough, is how can I find the list of dependencies for a given package? If apt-get doesn't always resolve the dependencies very well, it seems that it would be less trouble to just list the dependencies in the dpkg command as you suggest.

OK. I researched the dependencies question and found that I can use

# apt-cache depends teamviewer

to find the package dependencies.

Will study apt-get and dpkg more.

Thanks all!

Thanks! I found a site that describes how to download and use gdebi to do that.

Sounds useful!