Hello, I think that it would be nice that aptitude could install local
..deb files.
I mean, you have a file "foo_program.deb" and want to install in a way
similar to these:

# aptitude install --local foo_program.deb

or

# aptitude local-install foo_program.deb

Q- Which are the advantages of doing this? Why don't you use dpkg?
A- Because aptitude would calculate the dependences of
"foo_program.deb", then search the needed packages in configured
repositories, and download and install these extra packages.

It would be very very useful to hand made debian packages, or programs
that are being developed and still doesnt' have official Debian
packages, and don't have an APT repository.

Hi,

Cesar Martinez Izquierdo wrote in June 2004:

Herman Robak wrote in November 2005:

JFTR: This functionality is already present in Debian by the tool
"gdebi" from the package "gdebi-core". (The package "gdebi" contains
the GNOME GUI for gdebi.)

(gdebi was not available back when the first wishlist bug reports
about this were filed. :-)

		Regards, Axel

apt can do this now, it would be nice to have this feature in aptitude too.